is established” {5} [Tā Hā 5], that this means “has taken dominion.”

Abū al-Hasan said: “This is an account of people’s differing views concerning corporealism. We have already related that those who reject corporealism say that the Creator, Most High, is neither a body, nor bounded, nor finite. We shall now relate the views of the corporealists and their disagreements concerning corporealism.”

I say: He set out the passage to which he referred in his account of the Muʿtazilah’s position, saying: “This is an exposition of the Muʿtazilah’s position concerning Allah’s oneness and other matters. The Muʿtazilah unanimously agree that Allah is One; there is nothing like Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing. He is neither a body, nor a bodily outline, nor a corporeal mass, nor a form, nor flesh, nor blood, nor a bodily figure, nor a substance, nor an accident. He has neither colour, nor taste, nor smell, nor any tactile quality; neither heat, nor cold, nor moisture, nor dryness; neither length, nor breadth, nor depth; neither combination nor separation. He neither moves nor remains still, nor is He divisible. He has neither constituent parts nor portions