There is no doubt that al-Rāzī and others who advance such an argument do not understand division here in the sense we have explained: separating its parts from one another so that they occupy two distinct spaces, or the possibility of doing so. No one has said that Allah is divided in this sense, nor does being a body, occupying space, being above the world, or the like entail being divided in this sense.

If he says, “By ‘divided’ I mean that what is on one side of it differs from what is on the other, just as we say that the sun is divided, meaning that its right limb differs from its left, and that the celestial sphere is divided, meaning that the region of its northern pole differs from the region of its southern pole”—and this is indeed what he means—then this is a matter of dispute among people.

He may therefore be told: As for your assertion, “If it is divided, it is composite, and this has already been refuted,” the response concerning what you have called composite has already been given, and it has been shown