and otherness and spatial location, are ambiguous, equivocal expressions liable to confusion, intended to convey both truth and falsehood. What is false in them must therefore be denied, without denying the truth that some people intend by these expressions. This has already been explained at sufficient length to make repetition unnecessary. He has referred back to the preceding discussion, so we too have referred back to it.
The fifteenth point: His opponent may say to him: Suppose He is in a single spatial region. Why do you say that this is impossible? As for your statement, “He would be the smallest of things, and Allah is exalted above that,” the reply is: We do not concede that a single spatial region can accommodate only something the size of an indivisible atom. Rather, it may be one and yet vast. This holds even more readily for a spatial region than for a body. For if it has already been said