by various groups that a body can be vast and yet one, then this is all the more true of a spatial region. Moreover, whoever says that He is above the Throne and is vast but is not a body, or that He is a body but is not composite, maintains that there exists a single vast spatial region.

The sixteenth point: The opponent may say: The indivisible atom either exists or does not exist. If it exists, then you have presented no rational proof that He cannot be its size, as you acknowledged earlier in your Nihāyah, in the second line of argument against His being a body: if the opponent persists in demanding proof regarding His being the size of an atom, the way to counter him is to invoke the arguments used to deny the existence of an indivisible part, so that his demand can no longer be pressed. And if