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Al-Rāzī said:

“The Karrāmiyyah’s third specious argument for establishing that Allah Most High is in a direction: They say, ‘It has been established that it is possible to see Him, exalted is He. Seeing requires facing the object seen, or facing something deemed to be opposite it. This entails that He, exalted is He, is located in a particular direction.’”

He said:

“The response: Know that the Muʿtazilah and the Karrāmiyyah agree that everything visible must be in a direction. However, the Muʿtazilah say, ‘But He is not in a direction, so He cannot be visible,’ whereas the Karrāmiyyah say, ‘But He is visible, so He must be in a direction.’ Our companions dispute this premise, saying, ‘We do not concede that everything visible is located in a particular direction. There is indeed no dispute that this holds in the observable realm; but why do you say that whatever is so in the observable realm must also be so in the unobservable realm?’

“To elaborate: this premise must be either self-evident or established by inference. If it is self-evident, there is no need for this argument to establish that He, exalted is He, is located in a particular direction. For it is established in the observable realm that everything subsisting in itself is located in a particular direction, and it is established that the Creator, majestic and exalted is He, subsists in Himself. It would therefore be necessary to conclude with certainty that He, exalted is He, is located in a particular direction, because it is necessarily known that whatever holds true in the observable realm