—the first by stripping every real sense from the word “establishment,” and the second by affirming an establishment that belongs only to created beings.

[Affirming Allah’s Elevation and Establishment]
The decisive position, held by the balanced community of this ummah, is that Allah is established over His Throne in a manner befitting His majesty and unique to Him. Just as He is described as All-Knowing of everything, All-Powerful over everything, Hearing, Seeing, and the like—without attaching to His knowledge and power the contingent qualities found in the knowledge and power of creatures—so too He, exalted is He, is above the Throne, yet His being above does not entail any of the contingent qualities or necessities that apply when one created being is above another.

[The Harmony of the Salaf’s Doctrine with Reason and Revelation]
And know that neither sound reason nor authentic transmission contains anything that