necessary to describe Him as insignificant.

It may be said in response: This argument applies to everyone who says that He is above the Throne while also saying that He is neither composed nor composite—whether they affirm corporeality of Him, like the Karrāmīs he mentioned, or deny corporeality of Him, like the Kullābīs and the leading Ash‘arīs. It also applies to every group of jurists, Sufis and others who agree with them, although the generality of Ahl al-Sunnah, the leading religious scholars and the scholars of hadith say neither that He is a body nor that He is not a body. He has explicitly set out this argument; even when directed at those whom he reports as describing Him as composite and composed, it comes back to his own statement.

This argument may be addressed in several ways. First, as explained earlier, the term “divisible” is ambiguous, depending on the terminology being used. Thus, what is termed “divisible” in the Arabic language in which