Al-Rāzī said: “I have arranged the book into four parts.

Part One: The proofs demonstrating that He, exalted is He, is free of corporeality and spatial location. This part contains several chapters.

Chapter One: Setting out the premises that must be presented before embarking on the proofs. There are three such premises.

The first premise: Know that we posit the existence of a being that cannot be pointed to through sensory perception as being here or there.

Or we may say: We posit the existence of a being that is not situated in any spatial region or direction.

Or we may say: We posit the existence of a being that is neither within the world nor separate from it in any