you are under Allah’s protection and care.’

He said: This opponent should be told: ‘As for your allegation that some people maintain that Allah has an Eye, we do affirm this, for Allah and His Messenger have said so. But your claim that it is a bodily organ composed of parts like the human eye is a lie that you have deliberately attributed to us, for you know that no one says this. Yet you spare no effort in vilifying us, so that your misguidance may gain a firmer hold on the hearts of the ignorant. Lying is acceptable neither in earnest nor in jest.

From whom have you heard that it is a bodily organ composed of parts? Identify him, for anyone who says that is a disbeliever. Why, then, do you keep repeating your talk of a composite body, members, and bodily organs as parts, as though by such vilification you could intimidate us into ceasing to describe Allah as He has described Himself in His Book and as the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, has described Him?

Although we do not describe Allah as a body like the bodies of created beings, or attribute a member or a bodily organ to Him, we do describe Him, to your vexation, with