Allah is with the patient.” (46) [al-Anfāl 46]

He says:

“He created the heavens and the earth in six days, then rose over the Throne. He knows what enters the earth and what emerges from it, what descends from heaven and what ascends into it. And He is with you wherever you are. And Allah sees all that you do.” (4) [al-Hadīd 4]

He thus states that He is established over His Throne and, at the same time, is with His servants. Both are true. Whoever reflects upon the Quran necessarily knows that His being with them does not mean that His Essence is within them or that He is mingled with them, just as with the other uses of “with.” Whoever claims that this is the apparent meaning of the Quran has misrepresented language in general and the Quran in particular.

As for His statement:

“And We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.” (16) [Qāf 16]

And his claim, “Every rational person knows that what is meant here is nearness through divine knowledge and power,” the matter is not as he alleges in claiming such universality and consensus. For He, glory be to Him, says:

“We certainly created man, and We know what his soul whispers to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.” (16) [Qāf 16]

And is what is meant by this