pointing out that he is a body, whereas Allah Most High is not a body.

Instead, he said, peace be upon him:

“Your Lord is not one-eyed.”

He deemed the presence of this imperfection sufficient to demonstrate the falsehood of his claim—an imperfection that everyone knows, through reason’s immediate intuition, cannot exist in the Creator, glorified is He.

Likewise, denying corporeality would have sufficed in the case of the calf of the Children of Israel.

All these, as you can see, are innovations newly introduced into Islam. They are the cause of the sects that have arisen within it, into which the Chosen Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, foretold that his community would divide.

If someone asks:

“If the revealed Law does not explicitly tell the general public that He is a body or that He is not a body, what answer should they receive when they ask, ‘What is He?’ This question is natural to human beings, and they cannot escape it. Thus, the general public are not satisfied to be told of a being whose existence they acknowledge, ‘It has no essence,’ for that which has no essence has no being.”

We reply:

“They must be given the answer provided by the revealed Law. They should therefore be told: