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Al-Rāzī said in his Ta’sīs:

“Section Six. Know that the early Karrāmiyyah are widely reported to have applied the term ‘body’ to Allah, exalted is He. They say, however, ‘We do not mean by this that He, exalted is He, is constituted of parts and composed of portions. Rather, we mean that He, exalted is He, is independent of any substrate and is self-subsistent.’ On this understanding, the dispute over whether He, exalted is He, is a body becomes merely verbal. This is the substance of what has been said on this matter.

“However, we say: anything that occupies a particular spatial region or direction and can be pointed to through sensory perception either has no extension in any of its six directions—in which case it is like an indivisible atom or an indivisible point, and is exceedingly small and insignificant. I do not think any rational person would be willing to say that the God of the universe