Islamic theology debated whether God is to be declared wholly incomparable, tanzīh, or described with the attributes scripture gives, which risk likening him to creatures, tashbīh. Ibn ʿArabī held that true knowledge combines both: God is beyond all things and disclosed in all things.
Tanzīh and tashbīh
Incomparability and similarity: the two ways of speaking of God, as beyond all likeness and as present in all things.
Also: incomparability and similarity