‘Allah is a body, a bodily frame in human form—flesh, blood, hair, and bone—with limbs and organs: a hand, a foot, a tongue, a head, and two eyes. Yet despite this, He resembles no other, and no other resembles Him.’ It is related that al-Jawāribī used to say, ‘He is hollow from His mouth to His chest, and solid everywhere else.’ Many people say that He is solid, interpreting Allah Most High’s words, ‘al-Samad (the Eternal Refuge)’ {2} [al-Ikhlās 2], as meaning ‘the solid one, who is not hollow.’”

He said: “Hishām ibn Sālim al-Jawālīqī said that Allah Most High has a human form, denied that He is flesh and blood, and said that He is light