or an accident—and both alternatives, they claim, are impossible, for nothing that exists can, in their view, be conceived except as one of those two. Or he may say, “If He is established over the Throne, that establishment must be analogous to a man’s sitting on a couch or riding a ship, because no other kind of istiwāʾ is known.” In fact, both parties have fallen into anthropomorphism and both have nullified the reality of what Allah has attributed to Himself, each distinguished by its own particular error.