He said in his discussion of seeing Allah: “As for their statement”—meaning the objectors’—“‘This proof entails that Allah can be perceived by touch,’ we reply: ‘Our brethren have accepted this consequence, and there is no alternative.’”

He also said concerning the opponent’s fourth argument: “The objection based on categories is that visible things in the observable world belong to specific categories: substances, colours, motion, rest, separation and combination. Nothing belonging to these categories falls outside them, and nothing that does not belong to them falls within them. Thus, only what belongs to their kind can be seen, just as audible things in the observable world constitute a single, specific category—sound—and just as one cannot hear what is not