the error of their interpretation of His rising over His Throne—and that it means something other than the mastery and other meanings they assign to it—is what people of reason know: He has always been over all His creatures since bringing them into existence, with the Throne and everything else being alike in that respect. Thus, their interpretation offers no explanation for singling out the Throne for His rising over, which, according to their corrupt interpretation, means mastery, sovereignty, subjugation, and domination.”

He said:

“That it is literal is also made clear by His words, mighty and majestic is He:

‘And who is more truthful than Allah in speech? (122)’
[Al-Nisā’: 122]

When fair-minded people observed His specific mention of rising over His Throne after creating His heavens and earth, and His singling it out for this description of rising over, they understood that rising over here means something other than mastery and the like. They therefore affirmed His description of Himself as rising over His Throne, and that this is literal, not figurative, [for He is truthful] in His speech. They refrained from specifying how this is or likening it to anything, since nothing whatsoever is like Him.”

And the shaykh and imam Abū Ahmad al-Karajī al-Qassāb said—he was the leading scholar of those