the possibility of his assertion and of its being rationally conceivable. Thus, nothing al-Rāzī mentioned established that what they asserted was possible in itself, or that it could be known.

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The godly imam, ‘Abd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak, was asked, “By what do we know our Lord?”

He replied, “By His being above His heavens, upon His Throne, separate from His creation.”

This is widely transmitted from him and accepted on the authority of the imams of guidance, such as Imam Ahmad, Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh, and al-Bukhārī, author of