It is not permissible to name Allah with names of the creation or to attribute to Allah something from the attributes of creation; for example, by calling Him ‘the Father’ as the Christians do, ‘the effective cause’ as philosophers do, or the popular ‘Mother Nature’, or, as a group of Jews are quoted as saying in the Qur’an: {…Indeed, Allah is poor, while we are rich...} (Qur’an 3:181) Allah (the Exalted) says: {…and leave the company of those who belie or deny [or utter impious speech against] His Names