make it possible for it to be seen—or by attributes surpassing these in existence and in warranting visibility. If we can see an existent thing whose nonexistence is possible, then that whose nonexistence is impossible is all the more deserving of being seen. If we can see something located in a direction and forming a unified whole that can be separated and divided, then a unified whole that cannot be separated and divided is all the more deserving of being seen.

But we cannot say: “If we see something located in a direction, then what is not located in a direction is all the more deserving of being seen; and if we see something unified, then what is neither unified nor separated is all the more deserving of being seen; and if we see something unified, then what is neither unified nor separated is all the more deserving of being seen; and if we see something unified, then what is neither unified nor separated is all the more deserving of being seen.”

We have mentioned more than once that analogies and comparisons concerning divine matters, when used to draw attention to a truth or establish what holds a fortiori, whether in negation or affirmation, are of the same kind as those found in the Book and the Sunnah.