Editing Sunni Islam (section)

====Names and attributes====
The Sunnis confess that the names of God cannot be said to be anything other than God, as Muʿtazilites and Kharijites claim.<ref>al-Ašʿarī: ''Kitāb Maqālāt al-islāmīyīn''. S. 290f. – Dt. Übersetzung 1931, p. 56f.</ref> Rather, they teach that there are correlating attributes (''ṣifāt'') which exist in each of the names of God mentioned in the Quran: God is alive through life (''[[ḥayāh]]''), knowing through knowledge (''ʿilm''), mighty through power (''ʿqudra''), wanting through will (''[[irāda]]''), hearing through hearing (''samʿ''), seeing through sight (''[[baṣar]]'') and speaking through Speech (''[[kalām]]'').<ref name="Gazali10776">al-Ġazālī: ''[[Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm ad-dīn]]''. 2005, S. 107. – Engl. Übers. Watt. 1994. p. 76.</ref> The attributes are not identical to God, nor are they anything different from him.<ref>an-Nasafī: ''ʿUmdat ʿAqīdat ahl as-sunna wa-l-jama''. 1843, p. 7.</ref> Only those attributes are ascribed to God which he ascribed to himself (in the [[Quran]]) or which his prophet ascribed to him. And every attribute that he or his [[prophet]] has ascribed to him is a real attribute, not an attribute [[Majaz|figuratively]].<ref name="IbnGauzi280199"/>