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Bi-lā kayf

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Affirming attribute language without specifying modality or creaturely likeness.

Different interpretive patterns, not a fixed one-method-per-school table
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The formula accepts transmitted attributes while declining a human-like modality. It does not simply authorize assembling a human image from hand and face language. [1]

It is not automatically metaphorical interpretation as power, nor does it settle every distinction between delegating meaning and modality. Each author requires contextual reading.

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  1. Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation (2020), Glossary: bi-lā kayf Indexed glossary definition: affirmation without specifying modality or human likeness. Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 11 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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IL Archive, «Bi-lā kayf», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/bila-kayf