spatial region. Yet it may be said: the division of a spatial region into one or more than one is either known only by knowing that its occupant is a body or a substance, or it is known before the nature of its occupant is known. If its unity or multiplicity can be known only through what occupies it, then saying that Allah is in a spatial region does not entail that this region falls into the division of one or many until it is established that Allah must be a body or an indivisible substance. Knowing that a spatial region falls into this division would therefore depend upon knowing that the Creator, exalted is He, must, on this supposition, be a body or an indivisible substance. Yet he has not demonstrated this.
If this were demonstrated, denying corporeality would suffice for him to deny that He is spatially located. There would then be no need to divide spatial region into one or more than one. It is thus clear that he has offered no argument for this claim; and had he offered an argument for it, there would have been no need to mention the claim. On either alternative, mentioning it serves no purpose on this supposition, whether accompanied by an argument or not.
If, however, the division into one or many can be known without knowing that its occupant is a substance or a body, let him explain this. Otherwise, since he has not explained it, the premise remains open to challenge. Moreover, the only argument that could be advanced for this is that a spatial region is divided according to the divisions of what occupies it, and that its occupant can only be a substance or a body—for the supposition is that knowing its division does not depend upon this argument.
The seventh response is to say: describing something as one or as more than one either entails that it exists or does not entail that it exists. If it entails that it exists, this division entails that the spatial region is something existent. Yet you stated, in concluding the proof, that it is not something existent. And if the description is that it is existent—and if describing it as one or as more than