heaven and have thereby affirmed a limit for Him, except for the misguided al-Marīsī and his followers. Even children who have not yet reached puberty know Him in this way: when something troubles a child, he raises his hands to his Lord, calling upon Him in heaven rather than anywhere else. Everyone, then, knows Allah and His place better than the Jahmiyyah.

We have also previously cited his words in the course of his refutation of the Jahmī who denied Allah’s rising over the Throne. He said: “More astonishing than all this is your measuring Allah by the Throne’s dimensions, size, and weight, whether small or large. Like blind children, you have claimed that if Allah is larger than the Throne, smaller than it, or equal to it, then, if Allah is smaller, you have made the Throne