people in this world have believed in the unseen and in other things that they have not seen in this world but will see in the Hereafter. When it becomes clear to them that these people maintain that He will be dispersed and divided in the Hereafter just as He was in this world, no one could see Him, nor could He occupy the same place as anyone, nor could His allies enjoy a nearness to Him denied to His enemies. Rather, He would be in Hell with His enemies just as He would be in Paradise with His allies. This exposes their lies about Allah in ways that their statements concerning this world did not.

In his refutation of the Jahmiyyah, after explaining that He is upon the Throne and answering the arguments they advanced, 'Abd al-'Azīz al-Kinānī went on to say: “But you, O Jahmī, must say that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is bounded and that places encompass Him, since you claim that nothing can conceivably be in a place unless that place encompasses it, just as the Arabs say, ‘So-and-so is in