His report concerning His establishment over the Throne, then entrusted knowledge of how He established Himself to Allah. But you, O Jahmī, are bound to say that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is bounded and contained by places if you claim that He is in places. For nothing can be conceived of as being in a place unless that place contains it. Thus the Arabs say, “So-and-so is in the house,” and “The water is in the well”: the house contains so-and-so, and the well contains the water.

An even more reprehensible conclusion follows necessarily from your position, for you have said something more appalling than the Christians did. They said that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, dwelt in Jesus, and Jesus is the body of a single human being. They thereby fell into disbelief and were told: “What greatness you have accorded Allah Most High by placing Him in Mary’s womb!” Yet you say that He is everywhere—in the wombs of all women, in the body of Jesus, and in the bodies of people