Names and Attributes of Allah - , What is meant by profaning the names of Allah and types of profanation

What is meant by profaning the names of Allah, may He be exalted?.
Praise be to Allaah.
The scholars have mentioned different types of profaning the names of
Allah, may He be exalted, all of which involve distorting the meaning in
a way other than the way it should be understood. There are several
types:
1.
Denying any of His names or the attribute to which a name refers. For
example: those who deny that the name ar-Rahmaan (the Most Gracious) is
one of the names of Allah, may He be exalted, as the peopleof the
Jaahiliyyah did.
Or they may affirm the name but deny the attribute to which it refers,
as some of the innovators said that Allah, may He be exalted,is Merciful
without mercy, All-Hearing without hearing.
2.
Calling Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, by a name by which He
did not call Himself.
The reason why this is profanation is that the names of Allah, may He be
glorified and exalted,are limited to what is mentioned in the texts of
the Qur'an and Sunnah, and it is not permissible for anyone to call
Allah, may He be exalted, by a name by which He did not call Himself.
This comes under the heading of speaking about Allah without knowledge,
andtransgressing against the rights of Allah, may He be glorified and
exalted. This is what some of the philosophers did, when they called God
the primary cause, and as the Christians did when they called Allah, may
He be exalted, the Father, and so on.
3.
Believing that these names refer to attributesof created beings, and
hence thinking that this points to likening Allah to His creation.
The reason why this is profanation is that the one who believes that the
names of Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, point to likening Allah
to His creation has misinterpreted them anddistorted them from the
correct meaning. He has understood the words ofAllah and the words of
His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) as pointing
tokufr (disbelief), because likening Allah to His creation is kufr, as
it is a rejection of the words (interpretation of the meaning): "There
is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer"
[ash-Shoora42:11] and "Do you know of any who is similar to Him?"
[Maryam19:65]. Na'eem ibn Hammaad al-Khuzaa'i, the shaykh of al-Bukhaari
(may Allah have mercy on them both) said: The one who likens Allah to
His creation has committed an act of kufr, and the one who denies any
attribute that Allah has ascribed to Himself has committed an act of
kufr; there is nothing in the attributes that Allah has ascribed to
himself that is similar to the attributes of His creation.
4.
Deriving names of idols from the names of Allah, may He be exalted, such
as deriving the name al-Laat from al-Ilaah (theGod), and al-'Uzza from
al-'Azeez (the Almighty) and Manaat from al-Mannaan (the Benefactor).
End quote.
Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him)
Fataawa al-'Aqeedah, p. 44