The shaykh and imam Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-‘Abbās Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah—may Allah have mercy on him and be pleased with him—said:

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Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Rāzī then said in his Ta’sīs:

“Chapter Four: Establishing proofs that He is not situated in a spatial location or direction such that He can be pointed to by the senses as being here or there.”

He presented eight proofs for this. Although some are based on his preceding denial that He is a body—for he argued that this entails denying that He is upon the Throne—most are not based on that.

This chapter entails that He is neither upon the Throne nor above the heavens, that the Messenger was not taken up to Him, and that there does not ascend to Him