Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullah InshaAllah wait for more knowledgeable brothers to answers this question but basically isn't the position in a very basic understanding as follows... Allah's attributes are not the same as his essence but they are not separate such that you can call them different entities because if that was the case then we would have the issue of multiple entities which are pre-eternal and that is obviously not correct. So the way of Ahl Sunnah is the middle way such that we don't negate the attributes nor do we say they are completely separate entities. is my understanding correct? Wa'Allahu Alam