the house,’ and ‘The water is in the jar’: the house contains the man, and the jar contains the water. Your position entails something even more repugnant, for you have said something more atrocious than what the Christians said. They said that Allah dwelt in Jesus, and Jesus was the body of a single human being. They disbelieved thereby and were told, ‘You have not duly exalted Allah Most High, since you have placed Him in Mary’s womb.’ Yet you say that He is in every place, in the wombs of all women, in the body of Jesus, and in the bodies of all people. Your position also requires you to say that He is inside dogs and pigs, since these are places, and according to you He is in every place. Exalted is Allah far above that!

Because of the repugnance of his position, he said, ‘I say that Allah is in every place—not as one thing is in another, nor as one thing is upon another, nor as one thing is with another, outside it and not separate from it.’

He should be told, ‘Your position is founded on analogy and reason. Yet through analogy and reason you have demonstrated that you worship nothing. For if He were something, analogy and reason would allow only that He be either inside something or outside it. Since, according to you, He is not a thing, it is impossible for Him to be like one thing inside another