As for the prohibition, it entails resemblance, prohibiting resemblance. He said, “There is nothing like Him,” so He forbade the universe from resembling Him or resembling His imposed likeness. So the prohibition on it was that it was manifested in a form that accepts resemblance. If the same matter requires denying resemblance, then we have joined him in that, for it does not accept resemblance. We do not accept the likeness to him, even if there is not such-and-such in the matter itself, but he chose that, i.e., he stood in this position for Ubaidah. He has ruled himself prohibited in what he has the right to stand in the opposite of him, just as he prohibited us. In both cases, a kind of similarity has occurred, and as for the obligation, the form of the similarity is that it is as it is obligatory. For him, while we are doing what is obligatory for us, he said to Abu Yazid, “Come closer to me with what I do not have. Humiliation and poverty. Richness and glory are obligatory f