and their associates. He stated that they say that Allah is in every place and yet is established above His Throne; that He is seen with the eyes, without specifying how; that He exists in His essence in every place; that He is neither a body nor bounded; and that neither indwelling nor contact is possible for Him. He maintains that He will come on the Day of Resurrection, as He said:

“And your Lord comes” [al-Fajr 22].

Among those who deny that He is a body, this resembles the view of some who affirm that He is a body and say that He has no limit. The Jahmī theologians are closer to absolute negation, since discourse can describe what exists with an attribute of what does not exist, and the like. Their devotees, however, have an intention and a will directed toward what they worship, and intention cannot be directed toward sheer nonexistence. Hence they often make Him