unlike other living beings, why do you deny that the two hands of which Allah has spoken are hands that are neither favors nor bodily limbs, nor like other hands?” Likewise, they should be told: “You have never encountered a wise and powerful being unlike a human being, yet concerning Him you have departed from what is observable. You have thus invalidated your own reasoning. So do not refuse to affirm two hands that are neither favors nor bodily limbs on the grounds that this is contrary to what is observable.”

The fourth point: His statement on behalf of the opponent: “Why should it not be possible to say that He, exalted is He, alone is free from composition and combination, yet is nonetheless of great magnitude?” His statement: “Whatever is of great magnitude must be divisible, and that is incompatible with