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Is it permissible to say "Allah created her and broke the mold" to indicate the extreme beauty and good character of a woman, without intending to imply Allah's inability to create her like?

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The saying that Allah broke the mold after creating man, if it intends to imply Allah's inability to create another like him, then it is disbelief (kufr). But if it intends to exaggerate in describing the beauty of the creation, then it is attributing something to Allah without knowledge, and that is one of the major sins; for Allah Almighty says: (Say, "My Lord has only forbidden immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed - and sin, and oppression without right, and that you associate with Allah that for which He has not sent down authority, and that you say about Allah what you do not know.") And His saying: (And do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge.) This description is false because it likens Allah to a human maker, and there is nothing like Allah, as Allah Almighty says: (There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.) Na'im ibn Hammad affirms that whoever likens Allah to anything from His creation has committed disbelief. This absolute statement is false and an exaggeration and a lie against Allah, and there is no need for it to describe beauty.

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