There is no god besides Me, and no object of worship other than Me. O Ghalba, he has lied who likens Me to a thing, or likens things to Me, or claims that vision perceives Me or delusions encompass Me. For how can he be perceived who has no end, and whose quality, essence, being, and modality are unknown?"

I say: All these sayings indicate, prove, and confirm that He, the Exalted, is not a human being; rather, He, Glory be to Him, is transcendent above humanity, for He is the Creator of humans and the God of humans, according to the saying of the Exalted in Surah Al-Imran: {It is not for a human [prophet] that Allah should give him the Scripture and authority and prophethood and then he would say to the people, "Be servants to me rather than Allah," but [instead, he would say], "Be pious scholars of the Lord because of what you have taught of the Scripture and because of what you have studied." Nor could he order you to take the angels and prophets as lords. Would he order you to disbelief after you had been Muslims?} (Al-Imran 79-80).

And here is Al-Shafi‘i, the Imam of the well-known Sunni school of thought, saying in wonder, confusion, and amazement:

I was told: "Speak a praise regarding Ali

Whose mention extinguishes a bolted fire.

I said: "I cannot precede in praising a man