The Explicit Condemnation of Anthropomorphism

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

Shaykh Wali ad-Din ʿAbd ar-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun (r.a.), condemned anthropomorphism, in his al-Muqaddimah: “The anthropomorphists did something similar in affirming that God has a body but not one like ordinary bodies. The word ‘body’ is not used in connection with God in the Muslim religio-legal tradition, but they were emboldened in their statement by the fact that they affirmed the literal existence of these plain statements.  They did not restrict themselves to them, but went deeper into the matter and affirmed the corporeality of God.  They assumed what has just been mentioned concerning the corporeality.  They ‘free’ God by the contradictory, nonsensical statement, ‘A body not like ordinary human bodies.’ 

But in the language of the Arabs, body is something that has depth and is limited.  Other interpretations, such as the one that is something persisting in itself, or is something composed of the elements, and other things, reflect the technical terms of speculative theology, through which the theologians want to get at another meaning than that indicated by the language.  Thus, the anthropomorphists are more involved in innovation, and, indeed, in unbelief.  They assume puzzling attributes for God which suggest deficiency and which are not mentioned in either the Word of God or that of His Prophet.” 

And this is precisely the theology of the Wahhabi sect.