He also said in his extensive Quran commentary, when discussing the verse concerning being established over the Throne:

“This is the question of being established over the Throne. Scholars have discussed it and devoted treatises to it. We have explained the scholars’ views on it in the commentary on the Most Beautiful Names. He mentioned fourteen views on it.”

He mentioned the position of the speculative theologians who deny the divine attributes, saying that they maintain:

“If the Lord must be declared free of occupying space, a necessary consequence of this is that He must also be declared free of direction. According to them, He is therefore not in the direction above, because, in their view, being in a particular direction entails being in a place and occupying space. Being in a place and occupying space entails motion and rest, which in turn entail change and coming into existence.”

He mentioned the views of these speculative theologians and said:

“The earliest predecessors did not deny direction, nor did they speak in such terms. Rather, they and the Muslims generally affirmed it for Allah Most High, as His Book declares and His messengers have reported. None of the predecessors denied