Is my friend considered to be among the anthropomorphists (Mushabbihah) for saying that Allah has a face, an eye, a leg, and a hand, and that there is some resemblance between Him and us?
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If your friend means that there is some resemblance in attributes, not in the sense of equivalence between the Creator and the created, but rather the resemblance stemming from a shared underlying meaning of the attribute, then that is correct.
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