The Difference Between Hikayah and Ibarah According to the Kalbiyyah and the Asha'irah

Question:
Or if you felt you had erred, is there a connecting difference between the statement of the two Imams and the Asha'irah regarding hikayah and ibarah?

Answer:
There is no difference, no difference in speech; the meaning is agreed upon. They, the Kalbiyyah and the Asha'irah, agree that speech is the meaning that subsists in His own Self, (Glorified and Exalted is He). As for the speech that exists, this is not the speech of Allah; rather, it is an ibarah or a hikayah of the speech of Allah. Who narrated it or expressed it? They say it is Jibril or Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Exalted is Allah above what they say. This is like the statement of al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah: "This is the speech of humans." This is the speech of humans. We ask Allah for well-being. Yes. In it, hikayah and ibarah and lying, expressing something or narrating something to us, yes. However, hikayah may be broader; hikayah can indeed be by action, and it can be by speech, whereas ibarah is only by speech.