, for Allah will see your deeds, and so will His Messenger.’”
(al-Tawbah: 105)
He did not say, “Allah hears your movement,” or “Allah hears your deeds.” He did not mention seeing in connection with what is heard, nor hearing in connection with what is seen, because, with Him, these two are different from what you claim.
Likewise, Allah Most High said:
“and nails”
“sailing under Our eyes”
(al-Qamar: 14: 13)
“And be patient with your Lord’s judgment, for you are under Our eyes.”
(al-Tūr: 48)
“and so that you might be brought up under My eye.”
(Tā Hā: 39)
He did not say of any of these things, “under My hearing.”
Just as we do not assign a modality to these attributes, neither do we deny them as you do, nor interpret them as falsely as you do.”
Then he said:
“Chapter on the Limit and the Throne
Abū Sa‘īd said:
The opponent also claimed that Allah has no limit, boundary, or end.”
He said:
“This is the foundation upon which Jahm built all his errors and from which he derived all his fallacies. It is a statement that, as far as we have heard, no one in the world uttered before Jahm.
Someone engaged in discussion with him said to him:
‘I know what you mean, O non-Arab: you mean that Allah is nothing, because all created beings have