Anthropomorphism is the practice of attributing human traits, emotions, and intentions to nonhuman entities, such as animals, plants, objects, or deities. Anthropomorphism is the practice of attributing human traits, emotions, and intentions to nonhuman entities, such as animals, plants, objects, or deities.

Ramadan Hassan Ahmed El-Sayed says the problems that faces translators in rendering the anthropomorphic images of Allah in the Qur‟ân are physical movements and body organs, used to refer to Allah in the Qur’ân, in 22 verses from the Qur‟ân. The images of the face, the eye, and the shin can be interpreted contextually.

The Qur’an 17:110 states: ”Call upon Allah, or call upon The Merciful; whichsoever you call upon, to Allah belong the most beautiful Names,” and also Qur’an 59:22-24, which has a cluster of more than a dozen Divine epithets in three verses: 22. He is Allah—there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him: Knower of the seen and unseen. He is Most Compassionate, Most Merciful. 23. He is Allah—there is no God except Him: the King, the Most Holy, the All-Perfect, the Source of Serenity, the Watcher ˹of all˺, the Almighty, the Majestic One.

The Qur’an teaches: Say, [O believers], “We believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us [the Qur’an] and what has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants [of Jacob] and what was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him.” (Qur’an 2:136)

While Christians, Jews and Muslims should make no disrespectful distinction between any of their prophets or their sacred scriptures, we cannot help but notice that the circumstances and style of each of the three written revelations are very distinct.

The Hebrew Sacred Scriptures are a vast collection (305,358 Hebrew words) of books written over a period of almost a thousand years, by more than two dozen different named Jewish Prophets, plus many more anonymous inspired Historians, Poets, and Philosophers.

The Greek New Testament is much shorter (a total of 138,162 Greek words); and was written over a period of less than 70 years, by four biographers plus maybe a half dozen other writers who all wrote in a language (Greek)........

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