Darʾ Taʿâroud al-ʿAql wa-n-NaqlIbn Taimiya

[The fourth argument]

He said: His essence either admits of being pointed to as being here or there, or it does not. In the former case, He occupies space, for spatial occupancy means nothing other than this. Yet spatial occupancy is impossible for Allah for two reasons.

[Spatial occupancy is impossible for Allah for two reasons]

The first is that He either moves away from His space or does not. In the former case, He is in motion; if He does not move away from it, He is at rest. Motion and rest are temporally originated, as will be explained, and whatever cannot be free of temporal occurrences is itself temporally originated.

[The second]

His occupying one particular space is either due to His essence or to an external determining agent. If the former, there is no more reason to assign Him to that space than to assign other substances to it, since they necessarily share the same nature. If it is due to something else, the Lord would necessarily depend on something other than Himself for His existence, and would therefore not be necessary

[الحجة الرابعة] قال أنه لا يخلو إما ان تكون ذاته قابلة لأن يشار إليها انها هنا أو هناك او لا تكون قابلة لذلك فإن كان الأول فيكون متحيزاً إذ لا معنى للتحيز إلا هذا والتحيز على الله محال لوجهين [التحيز على الله محال لوجهين] الأول أنه إما ان يكون منتقلاً عن حيزه أو لا يكون منتقلاً عنه فيكون متحركاًوإن لم يكن منتقلاً عنه فيكون ساكناً والحركة والسكون حادثان على ما يأتي وما لا يخلو عن الحوادث فهو حادث [الثاني] أن اختصاصه بحيزه إما ان يكون لذاته او لمخص من خارج فإن كان الأول فليس هو أولى من تخصيص غيره من الجواهر به ضرورة المساواة في المعنى وإن كان لغيره وجب أن يكون الرب مفتقراً إلى غيره في وجوده فلا يكون واجب

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