As it came in the third chapter of Ecclesiastes:

"I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of men, that God tests them to show them that they are as the beasts. For what happens to the sons of men happens to the beast; one thing happens to them: as this one dies, so dies that one, and one breath is for all, so that man has no advantage over the beast, for both are vanity. Both go to one place; both were from the dust, and to the dust both return. Who knows whether the spirit of the sons of men ascends upward, and the spirit of the beast descends downward to the earth? So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?"

Many statements have been reported in the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalms, and the Quran with this meaning, mentioning that He, the Almighty, created man according to the likeness of His image. All of this indicates the rejection of the Outward (al-ẓāhir) and the affirmation of the Inward (al-bāṭin), because He, the Almighty, is exalted above the human image; however, He, the Almighty, has described Himself with these attributes and others of weakness and human states as a ruse (makr) and concealment (talbīs) upon the disbelievers, and as instruction (taʿlīm) and discipline (taʾdīb) for the believers. This is evidenced by the saying of the Almighty in Surah al-Ḥajj:

{And We did not send before you any messenger or prophet except that when he desired, Satan threw [something] into his desire. But Allah