fifty-five. The judge said: If someone were to ask, “What, then, is this man’s position?” we would reply: He affirms the vision of Allah, conditional upon a sixth bodily structure, and takes “sense” to mean bodily structure and composition rather than perception.

I say: “Sense” may mean perception, the organ of perception, or the faculty within that organ. “The sixth” may refer to bodily structure and composition, to the faculty, or to perception—that is, that Allah creates a kind of vision different from the kind found in this world. This is akin to the view of those who say that He is seen without being in a direction. That, however, is not our concern here.

The judge said: As for the “whatness” he affirmed, some of the Karrāmiyya also came to affirm it, though they did not follow Dirār’s approach in doing so, for he