whose natural dispositions are sound are far more averse to negating these two contradictory alternatives than to negating the other pair, since the former pair applies to every existent, unlike the attributes peculiar to perfect beings. And Allah, glorified and exalted, knows best.

The excuse offered by these people—that He is not capable of being inside or outside—is of the same kind as that offered by the Qarmatians and philosophers in distinguishing the opposition of negation and affirmation from that of privation and possession, as when they say that He is not receptive to