And we add to that addition, so we say in His saying, “We preferred some of the prophets over others,” that is, we made in each of them attributes of glory and honor that we did not place in the other. Some of them increased over others in the attributes of honor and ranks with which they preferred some over others, which in our view is a comparison. Because of their connection to the divine names and divine truths, it is not valid to compare the divine names for two reasons. The same thing is that the names attribute them to the essence in a single relationship, so there is no comparison in it. If the ranks preferred one another according to the divine truths on which they were based, the credit would fall on the names of God, so some divine names would be better than others, and this would not be said. The generality of the name does not indicate its superiority, because the superiority only occurs in what is likely to be accepted, so it is not used in acceptance, or in what may