Nor does it undermine our position to say that states of being are situated in spatial directions only through their dependence on the substrates in which they inhere. For we say: being situated in a spatial direction is more general than being situated in it independently or dependently, and conceding the specific entails conceding the general. Thus, if you concede that states of being pertain to spatial directions dependently, you have conceded that they pertain to spatial directions. Once this is established, it follows that denying that something is a body does not entail denying that it pertains to a spatial direction or locus. Accordingly, after establishing that Allah is not a body, we must adduce proof that He is not situated in a spatial direction or locus.”

In response to what he has said, one may say that nothing is situated in a spatial direction except a spatial locus or something inhering in it; or that nothing is situated in a spatial direction independently except a body; or that nothing is situated in a spatial direction, independently or dependently, except a body or something inhering in it. Whichever of these