It may be said to him: Many of your own associates and other theologians who affirm the divine attributes dispute this with you. They say that something may be in a direction without being a body. This is precisely what you conceded to them in the most distinguished of your books, Nihāyat al-ʿUqūl. You said:

“The third question concerns the fact that He, exalted be He, is not in a direction. Before embarking on the argument, we must investigate whether it is conceivable for something that is not a body to be situated in a direction. If its being so situated is inconceivable, then the proof that He is not a body suffices to establish that He is not in a direction.”

You said: “Those who affirm direction while denying corporeality claim that we know self-evidently that spatial states are confined to particular directions, such as