IMĀM AL-JUWAYNĪ: ALLĀH DOES NOT OCCUPY SPACE[🧵] Imām al-Juwaynī said:
❝Among the attributes of the essence of the pre-eternal—He be exalted—is His dissimilarity with accidents; the Lord—He be exalted—does not resemble any of the accidents, and none of the accidents resembles Him.❞
📚 — [Kitāb al-Irshād, (p. 20)].
Thus it is necessary to deny that Allāh occupies space, because to affirm it would be inconsistent with pre-eternity. Any concept that implies that Allāh is a divisible quantity is heresy.
This general rule doesn't only apply to the question whether Allāh occupies space, but also any concept which implies an alteration in His essence. Hence al-Juwaynī also said:
❝Any premise which leads to the concept of God as a quantity or as divisible is a manifest heresy.❞
📚 — [Ibid., (p. 23)].
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