He said:

“If you say, ‘Indwelling may be required on condition that its locus exists, or the locus may require that He indwell it. Thus, neither the beginningless existence of the locus nor the indwelling of the Necessary Being follows.’

“I reply: ‘Both alternatives preclude indwelling being necessary. Union is invalid: if both entities remain when they unite, or both cease to exist and a third comes into existence, there is no union. If one remains while the other does not, there is no union, since what is nonexistent cannot be identical with what exists.’”

Al-Rāzī said:

“I debated one of the Christians and said, ‘Do you concede that the absence of evidence does not entail the absence of what it indicates?’

“He replied, ‘Yes.’

“I said, ‘Then what is the evidence that He, Most High, has not indwelt the body of Zayd or Amr, or a fly or an ant?’

“He replied, ‘Because it is established that Jesus brought the dead to life and healed