a human being climbs down from the roof to the lower part of a house, or like the one who claims that the Throne is left vacant of Him, so that His descent would amount to emptying one location and occupying another. This is false, and the Lord must be declared far above it, as has already been stated; the textual and rational proofs alike exist precisely to negate such a notion and to affirm His transcendence. End of quote.
He further said, on the subject of “body” and “composition,” in Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā (17/317): “Whoever says that He is a body and intends thereby that He is put together from parts has uttered a falsehood; likewise, if he means that He resembles other created beings. Revelation and reason have both established that ‘there is nothing like Him’ in any of His attributes. Thus, anyone who posits for Allah a likeness in any of His attributes is in error, and whoever calls Him a body in this sense is in error.
“As for the one who says that He is not a body, intending by that that He will not be seen in the Hereafter, that He does not speak the Quran or any other speech, that knowledge, power and the rest of the attributes do not subsist in Him, that hands are not raised to Him in supplication, that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was not taken up to Him, that good words do not ascend to Him and that the angels and the Spirit do not rise up to Him—this is also false. The same judgment applies to everyone who negates what Allah and His Messenger have affirmed and then claims that such affirmation is anthropomorphism; his negation is false, and labeling it anthropomorphism is mere sophistry.
“He goes on to say: In fact, neither the Book, nor the Sunnah, nor any report from the early generations ever used the word ‘body’ of Allah, whether to affirm it or to deny it. Therefore, no one has the right to invent an ambiguous term, open to various meanings, which the revealed Law has not spoken, and then hang the religion of the Muslims upon it.” End of quote.
He also said: “These newly introduced, ambiguous expressions, such as ‘composite,’ ‘constituted,’ ‘divisible,’ and the like, have now become the refuge of anyone who wishes to deny…"