the Throne there is a body. But if what is above the Throne is not a body, it cannot entail the necessary properties of a body. Divisibility, finitude, delimitation, and the like necessarily accompany corporeality and, in turn, imply it. Nothing can be finite, delimited, or divided unless it is a body; and nothing can be a body unless it can be described as divisible, or as admitting finitude and delimitation or their absence.

They said to their opponents among those who deny the divine attributes: If we agree that He is not a body, or if proof establishes that He is not a body, while we know through our innate disposition, rational necessity, mass-transmitted scriptural evidence, and the agreement of the early generations of the Muslim community and the best of creation that He is above the Throne, then what is above the Throne is, by hypothesis, not a body. In that case, the assertion that He must be either finite or extend endlessly in the various directions, and must be either divisible or an indivisible atom, is entirely invalid. These consequences follow only if what is upon the Throne is a body. But if He is neither a body nor something that occupies space, none of these consequences follows.