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al-Rāzī in this book, as he makes clear when he says: “The eleventh argument is His saying: ‘Say, “To whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth?” Say, “To Allah.”’ [al-An‘ām 12]”
He says: “This suggests that place and everything within it belong to Allah Most High. And His saying, ‘To Him belongs whatever dwells in the night and the day,’ [al-An‘ām 13] indicates that time and everything within it belong to Allah Most High. Taken together, the two verses indicate that place and all spatial things, and time and all temporal things, belong to Allah Most High. This indicates His transcendence above place and time.”
He says: “This line of argument was mentioned by Abū Muslim al-Asbahānī in
الرازي في كتابه هذا كما ذكر ذلك حيث قال الحجة الحادية عشر قوله قُل لِّمَن مَّا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ قُل لِلّهِ
[الأنعام ١٢]
قال وهذا يشعر بأن المكان وكل مافيه ملك لله تعالى وقوله تعالى وَلَهُ مَا سَكَنَ فِي اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ
[الأنعام ١٣]
وذلك يدل على أن الزمان وكل مافيه ملك لله تعالى ومجموع الآيتين يدل على أن المكان والمكانيات والزمان والزمانيات كلها ملك لله تعالى وذلك يدل على تنزيهه عن المكان والزمان قال وهذا الوجه ذكره أبو مسلم الأصبهاني في