the True One’ [al-An‘ām 162]. And He said: ‘If only you could see when they are made to stand before their Lord’ [al-An‘ām 30]. And He said: ‘If only you could see when the guilty hang their heads before their Lord’ [al-Sajdah 12]. And Allah Most High said: ‘They will be presented before your Lord in ranks: “You have come to Us just as We created you the first time”’ [al-Kahf 48].”

He said: “All of this indicates that He is not within His creation, nor is His creation within Him, and that He, glorified be He, has risen over His Throne. Glorious and mighty is He, and far exalted above what the wrongdoers say. Exalted is He above what is said by those who have affirmed no reality for Him in their descriptions, nor established His oneness in speaking of Him. Their words ultimately amount to divesting Him of His attributes, and all their descriptions, when interpreted, amount to negation. By this they intend