attributes.

He said: “We have disallowed speaking of a limit without qualification in several places in our book. Yet it must be permissible in the sense we have explained.”

This represents a return on his part to affirming a limit, though his statements on the matter differed. He said here:

“The variation in Ahmad’s statements concerning the affirmation of a limit must be understood as referring to two different cases. Where he said that He is upon the Throne with a limit, he meant that whatever of His Essence faces the Throne constitutes a limit and a direction for Him. Where he said that He is upon the Throne without a limit, he meant the directions other than the one facing the Throne: above, behind, in front, to the right and to the left. The distinction