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And He says:

“He is the Most High, the Most Great.” {255} [al-Baqarah 255]

He then said: This is Allah’s own declaration, informing us that He is in heaven. He then advanced another argument drawn from rational analogies, saying: We find everything that is low to be blameworthy. Allah Most High says:

“Indeed, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire.” [al-Nisā’ 145]

“And those who disbelieved will say, ‘Our Lord, show us the two who led us astray from among the jinn and humankind; we will place them beneath our feet so that they may be among the lowest.’” {29} [Fussilat 29]

This argument is an a fortiori analogy: lowness is blameworthy in created beings, for Allah has placed His enemies in the lowest of the low. This is firmly rooted in the innate disposition of His servants, so much so that the followers of those who led them astray asked to place them beneath their feet so that they would be among the lowest.

Since this is regarded as unbefitting a created being, and is a description applied to blameworthy, flawed creatures, the Lord Most High is all the more deserving of being declared free and exalted above being below, or being characterized by lowness—whether He Himself or anything of Him—or having this apply to His attributes in any way. Rather, He is the Most High, the Highest in every respect. Hence, it is related that Bishr al-Marīsī used to say in prostration, “Glory be to my Lord