الرِّجْلُ وَالْقَدَمَانِ

The way of the Salaf is to treat these attributes related in authentic texts (الصفات الخبرية) upon a uniform consistent principle, since their mention is no different to other attributes mentioned in the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, such as hearing and seeing. These attributes are rejected by the people of speculative philosophy because they consider their affirmation to entail anthropomorphism (تجسيم وتشبيه). However, this is only because they first likened these attributes to what is found with creatures and imagined them to be like that, the repugnance of which led to them negate these attributes. As for Ahl al-Sunnah, then they know that the essence of Allāh is unlike all other essences, and as such, it is impossible to conceive of and imagine the reality of these attributes. Further, if this claim is granted, then the affirmation of any attribute at all entails anthropomorphism, since we could only conceive and imagine that attribute to be as it is in a created body. Thus, there are only two ways, either reject everything upon a uniform principle (to avoid embodiment and anthropomorphism), which is the way of the Philosophers and Jahmiyyah. Or affirm everything upon a uniform principle (affirmation without likening). Anything in between is just plain contradiction, and this is the way of the Muʿtazilah, Ashāʿirah and Māturīdīyyah.