the transmitted reports and what is stated in the Quran: that He will be plainly seen with the eyes in the Hereafter by the believers.”

He said: All corporealists, except a very few, affirm that Allah will be seen. Some who do not profess corporealism also affirm this.

He said: They differed, holding two views, on whether one may say that the Creator Most High has always been knowing, powerful, and living. Some said, “Allah Most High has always been knowing, powerful, and living.” Many corporealists asserted that, before creating creation, the Creator was neither knowing nor powerful, neither hearing nor seeing, nor willing. Then He willed—and His will, according to them, is His movement. Thus, when He willed something to come into being, He moved, and that thing came into being, because “He willed” means “He moved.” Movement is not other than Him. Likewise, they said that His power, knowledge, hearing, and sight are meanings, are not other than Him, and are not “things,” because a “thing” is a body. Others said that the Creator’s movement is other than Him. Those who held that the Creator moves differed, holding