any doubt that might arise, through what He has explained elsewhere in His Book: that He rose over the Throne; that good words and righteous deeds ascend to Him; that He raised Jesus to Himself; and that the angels and the Spirit ascend to Him, along with other explanatory, unambiguous texts showing that Allah is above creation. This was an eloquent clarification from Allah to His servants that His essence is not within created beings themselves, preventing them from understanding the Quran in this false sense. They do not dispute that some passages of the Quran explain others and prevent them from being construed in a false sense, as discussed earlier. What is impossible is for its apparent meaning to be misleading without Allah having clarified that.

The third point: These people say that Allah Most High has explained in several places that He created the heavens, the earth, and all that is between them in six days, and has made clear that to Him belongs the dominion of the heavens, the earth, and all that is between them.