What is the answer to the claim of the Asha'irah that you, O people of the Sunnah, take the verses of attributes at their apparent meaning except for the verses of companionship?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some of the Asha'irah say about the people of the Sunnah: "You, O people of the Sunnah, take all the verses of attributes at their apparent meaning except for the verses of companionship, for you have departed from your methodology regarding the attributes by interpreting them with knowledge. What is the response to this statement?"

Answer:
This is either ignorance of the meaning of companionship or stubbornness. Companship has meanings; it is used to mean mixing, and it is used to mean accompanying without mixing. The intended meaning of companionship in the case of Allah is accompanying without mixing.
So He is with us, (Glorified and Exalted is He), with His knowledge and encompassing awareness. This is even the case with created things; you say, "The moon is with us." Does the moon walk with you? It is beside you, but it is in the sky. So it is with you, traveling, in the sense that it accompanies you in your journey while it is in the sky. If this is the case with the created, how much more so with the Creator, (Glorified and Exalted is He)? This is a companionship of accompanying, not a companionship of mixing. Companship has meanings, and these people do not understand, or they understand and they are mistaken. Yes. He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Seeking refuge in a created being in what it is capable of.
You say, for example, "My wife is with me," while you are in the East and she is in the West. What does it mean that your wife is with you? It means she is under your protection. Is it not the case that whenever you say "with me," it does not mean that she is parallel to you and mixing with you? Companship has meanings, and these people do not know, do not understand, and do not recognize the meanings of the language, or they are mistaken. You say, "My goods are with me," while they are in the car or on the mount, meaning that they accompany you. The meaning of companionship is not mixing and being parallel, but this is one of its meanings.
One of the meanings of companionship is mixing. But the intended meaning of the companionship of Allah is not mixing. Rather, its meaning is accompanying, knowledge, and encompassing awareness. Yes. So there is no interpretation in this, and praise be to Allah. This is an explanation of companionship with its correct meaning. It is not an interpretation as these people claim. Yes.