but they do not hold that the two are equal in their attributes. Moreover, they do not call either of them Allah or the Lord of the worlds, nor do they designate the two together by a single name. No rational person has therefore said that the One designated by “Allah” or “the Lord of the worlds” is divided in the commonly understood sense: that He is two entities, each occupying a spatial region separate from the other.

Nor has anyone said that Allah was one and then separated and divided, so that part of Him came to occupy one spatial region and another part a different region. All rational people agree that division in this familiar sense does not apply to Him, and it is plainly incompatible with the Lord of the worlds being one. Yet the falsity of this does not entail the falsity of the opponent’s position that Allah is one