As for the judge’s affirmation of a limit only on the side facing the Throne, his statements on this have varied. This is the position of a group among Ahl al-Sunnah, but the majority hold otherwise, and theirs is the correct view.

The point is that those who affirm the divine attributes yet deny a limit, magnitude, corporeality, and the like, while maintaining that He is upon the Throne, do not concede that His being Himself above the Throne necessarily entails describing Him as finite in magnitude, just as it does not entail describing Him as divisible. Likewise, in their view, it does not entail describing Him as infinite—in the sense of an extension without end—just as He is not, in their view, described as indivisible in the sense of an indivisible part. Nor, in their view, does this entail describing Him as greater than the Throne in magnitude and spatial extent, smaller than it, or equal to it. For they say that all these consequences follow only if it is assumed that above