has risen’ (Tā Hā 5); and His words, ‘Then He rose toward the heaven while it was still smoke’ (Fussilat 11), along with the other verses of this kind and the reports that speak of the divine attributes—for example, his ﷺ statement, ‘The hearts of the children of Adam lie between two fingers of the All-Merciful,’ and his saying, ‘The Almighty will place His Foot in the Fire,’ and so on. [What, then, have the scholars said about these texts? Kindly set the matter out in detail, and you will, God willing, be rewarded.] He replied: