elsewhere.

This attribute entails that He cannot be divided and that nothing can issue from Him, since that would be incompatible with His being al-Samad. This has been used to argue that He is a solid body. The Founder mentioned it among his opponents’ arguments and answered it. We shall discuss this, Allah willing.

After relating the explanations of al-Samad, Abū al-Qāsim said:

“All these attributes are attributes of our Lord, majestic is His glory. None of them contradicts any other—meaning in the statements: He is solid, without an internal cavity; He does not eat food; and He remains after His creation has perished.”

The fourteenth point:

When you claim that the Hanbalīs and others affirmed parts and portions, do you mean this, or something equivalent in the terminology of the speculative theologians, or some of them?

As for the first:

If the terms ‘parts’ and ‘portions’ mean that He undergoes division or partition in the familiar sense—that is, that such division or partition actually occurs,