you had no recourse other than this, then this line of argument is invalid if the existence of the indivisible atom is assumed. For if its existence is assumed, the arguments advanced to deny it are invalid. If, on the other hand, the indivisible atom does not exist, one cannot say that whatever occupies a single part is the very smallest thing. Indeed, a single spatial region, understood in that sense, would have no existence at all. Thus, on either assumption, you have presented no argument proving that He cannot be in a single spatial region. In such a case, you can only appeal to consensus—the consensus of rational people, which includes the consensus of Muslims.

You may therefore be told: These opponents say that He is immense in Himself, greater than anything great, larger than anything large, and higher than anything high. His Kursī encompasses the seven heavens and the seven earths. They say to you:

“They have not esteemed Allah as He deserves. On the Day of Resurrection, the whole earth will be in His grasp, and the heavens will be rolled up in His right hand.”
[al-Zumar 67]

Ibn ‘Abbās said: “The seven heavens, the seven earths, and everything between them are, in the Hand of the Most Merciful, no more than a mustard seed in the hand of one of you”—or words to that effect.

This, then, is a second basis for denying that He is the size of an indivisible atom. If you concede this, you would not be entitled