they have said on this question. If it is said, “Their rational proof concerning the vision of Allah is weak,” the reply is: “We do not concede that it is weak. Even if it is weak, it is no weaker than what they have advanced on this question. If it is weaker, their contradiction in what they affirm and deny concerning these two questions becomes apparent.”

The twentieth point: In their discussions of these two questions, both here and there, they have established that whatever cannot be pointed to or perceived by the senses is nonexistent. He established there that every existent can be seen and touched, and thus perceived by the senses and touched—which goes further than merely pointing to it physically. He also established that Allah can be seen and perceived through touch, since both sight and touch apply to substances and accidents alike, and therefore apply to Allah Most High. This entails that Allah can be pointed to and perceived by the senses, contrary to what he has stated here, as explained above.

Here he established that anything so described occupies space and has magnitude, and must therefore be divisible and composite, in the sense of division and composition conceived by the mind that he has here argued are entailed by his opponent’s position. And this