And many of them—among the Karrāmīs, Shiites, jurists, Sufis, and scholars of hadith—say that He is above the Throne, that He is a body, and that He occupies a spatial region. Some of them, however, say that He is neither composite nor divisible, nor does He have parts or portions; others do not deny these things.

As for the early generations of the Muslim community, its imams, and those who followed them, their statements affirm that He is above the Throne and affirm the attributes known through revelation, which these speculative theologians describe as parts and as entailing composition and divisibility. It is established that the imams of the early generations said that Allah has a limit, that none but He knows it, and that He is separate from His creation. On this subject, the scholars of hadith and the Sunnah have