are in a better position than these Karrāmīs, because they acknowledged that He is composed of parts and portions. These Karrāmīs, however, claimed that He can be pointed to as something perceptible to the senses and that He is infinite; yet they also claimed that He is one and indivisible. Consequently, their position contradicted the self-evident truths of reason.

As for their statement, ‘That which cannot be sensed or pointed to is even more insignificant than an indivisible particle,’ we reply: describing Him as insignificant would only follow if He occupied a spatial location and had magnitude, such that He could be said to be smaller than something else. But if He is exalted above spatial location and magnitude, there is no comparison between Him and anything else with respect to spatial location and magnitude, and therefore it is not