the Throne contradicts himself.

People generally say that affirming a visible object that does not face the eye is contradictory. Some groups among those who affirm the attributes and those who deny them say that affirming a body above the world that has no extension in any direction—as some of the Karrāmiyyah and those who agree with them maintain—is contradictory.

Some groups among those who deny the attributes and those who affirm them say that affirming one possessed of knowledge, power, hearing, sight, and will, who is not self-subsisting and distinguished from others by direction, is contradictory and necessarily known to be false.

Some groups among those who deny the attributes and those who affirm them—indeed, most people—say that affirming one who knows, hears, sees, and has power, yet is not self-subsisting and distinguished from others by direction, is contradictory and impossible.

These people, and many more besides, say that affirming a self-subsisting existent that is separate from the world yet is not in any direction is contradictory and impossible.

The vast majority of humanity say that affirming one who lives, knows, has power, hears, and sees, yet has no knowledge, power, life, hearing, or sight, is contradictory and incoherent.