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Although this argument refutes both groups regarding what they have wrongly denied, that does not detract from its purpose here. For it achieves the intended point: those who affirm Allah’s elevation above His Throne, despite what they themselves deny, show that those who deny His elevation above the Throne are committed to even greater implications than those the latter charge them with.
The tenth argument concerns his statement: “We say: If He is of great magnitude, He must be divisible. This is not a matter of drawing an analogy between the unseen and the observable; rather, it is based on a demonstration
وهذا القدر وإن كان فيه رد على الطائفتين فيما نفته بغير حق فلا يضر في هذا المقام فإن المقصود هنا حاصل به وهو أن هؤلاء المثبتة لعلو الله على عرشه مع نفيهم ما ينفونه يلزمون نفاة العلو على العرش بأعظم مما يلزمونهم به الوجه العاشر قوله أن نقول إذا كان عظيمًا فلابد وأن يكون منقسمًا وليس هذا من باب قياس الغائب على الشاهد بل بناء على البرهان