سورة الشعراء

Ali ibn Ibrahim: قالُوا وَ هُمْ فِیها یَخْتَصِمُونَ تَاللهِ إِنْ کُنَّا لَفِی ضَلالٍ مُبِینٍ إِذْ نُسَوِّیکُمْ بِرَبِّ الْعالَمِینَ [They will say, disputing therein: By Allah, we were surely in manifest error when we equated you with the Lord of the worlds]; those who went astray will say to those who [in the world] used to follow them: We obeyed you just as we obeyed Allah, so you became lords [to us].

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): It is narrated from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): One day in the mosque of Kufa, a man said to Imam Ali (peace be upon him), "Describe Allah to us as if we had seen Him with our own eyes." The Imam rose to deliver a sermon; the mosque filled with people, while he was angry and the color of his face had changed. He said, "... I bear witness that whoever likens You to a creature possessing distinct limbs and joints bound together, hidden within skin and flesh by the ordering of Your wisdom, has a heart empty of knowledge of You in its inner reality, and his heart has not attained certainty that there is no likeness to You whatsoever; and it is as if he has not heard the words in which the followers disavow their false leaders on the Day of Judgment, when they say, "تَاللهِ إِنْ کُنَّا لَفِی ضَلالٍ مُبِینٍ إِذْ نُسَوِّیکُمْ بِرَبِّ الْعالَمِینَ [By Allah, we were surely in manifest error when we equated you with the Lord of the worlds]." Those who considered anything besides You equal to You have lied, for they likened You to their idols, and by their false imaginings ascribed to You the attributes of created beings, and with their base thoughts regarded You as a body made of parts, and with their deficient reason knew You as though You were a creature composed of differing faculties. And I bear witness that whoever regards You as equal to anything of Your creation has thereby set up a rival to You, and whoever sets up a rival to You disbelieves in that which Your firm verses have revealed and to which the clear proofs of Your evidences testify."