the verse, because of what is said to contradict it, indicates the opposite of what it signifies. No rational person would say this.

The fourth point in establishing this is that His words, “Those who bear the Throne and those around it” [Ghāfir 7], and His words, “And eight will bear the Throne of your Lord above them that Day” {17} [al-Hāqqah 17], establish that Allah has a Throne that is borne, and that this Throne is not dominion, as a group of the Jahmiyyah claim. For dominion comprises the whole of creation. Here, the verse indicates that among Allah’s creatures are angels who bear His Throne and others who surround it, and that on the Day of Resurrection eight will bear it: either eight angels or eight categories and groups. This is undoubtedly closer to the position of those who affirm than to the view of those who negate.

The fifth point is that, in Arabic, a throne is a seat in relation to what is above it, and like a roof in relation to what is beneath it. Since the Quran has ascribed a Throne to Allah, and it is not like a roof in relation to Him, it follows that it is, in relation