over it, they accept these reports and affirm them without asking how, without likening, and without drawing any comparison. They hold that Allah is separate from His creation and the creation is separate from Him; He neither indwells them nor mingles with them. He is established over His Throne in His heaven, apart from His earth and His creatures.”

[Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym also says in his book “Mahjat al-Wāthiqīn wa-Madrajat al-Wāmiqīn,” which he authored: “They are unanimously agreed that Allah is above His heavens, exalted over His Throne, risen over it—not merely ‘in control of it,’ as the Jahmiyyah claim that He is in every—”]