this is the corporealists’ interpretation, because bodies are of two kinds: hollow and solid. Bones, for example, may be hollow or solid, while stone and the like are solid. They said: “This entails that He is a solid body with no hollow interior.”

This shows that His being al-Samad is incompatible with the possibility of His coming apart or dissolving. Either this verse indicates that or it does not. If it indicates that—and that He is solid, with no hollow interior, and cannot come apart—then your claim that every body can come apart and dissolve is invalid. If it does not indicate that, then you have supplied neither a rational proof, nor a scriptural text, nor a consensus establishing that He cannot come apart. In that case, your argument is incomplete, for this is one of its premises. Unless that premise is established, what you have presented is not a proof; and if it is not a proof, it cannot validly be used to deny that He is a body.

If he says, “I establish that He cannot be separated through consensus or my opponent’s agreement,” he is told: The person who agrees with you on the basis of evidence agrees that He is joined together and cannot come apart. He has not agreed that He is to be described in terms of neither joining together nor separation. At that point, he says: I knew that His coming apart was impossible only because His being joined together is necessary, just as I did not know the impossibility of