contained it, just as the Arabs say, “So-and-so is in the house, and the water is in the jar.” The house has contained so-and-so, and the jar has contained the water. An even more abhorrent consequence follows from your position, because you have said something even more abhorrent—for you have said something more atrocious than what the Christians said. They said that Allah dwelt in Jesus, and Jesus was a single human body. They thereby disbelieved and were told, “You have not accorded Allah Most High His due greatness, since you have placed Him in Mary’s womb.” Yet you say that He is everywhere: in the wombs of all women, in Jesus’ body, and in the bodies of all people. You must also say that He is inside dogs and pigs, since these are places, and according to you He is everywhere. Exalted is Allah far above that!

He said: When the repugnance of his assertion became clear, he said, “I say that Allah is everywhere—not as one thing is in another, nor as one thing is upon another, nor as one thing is with