And his saying: [And even if He is within them]; he intended by this the Manifestation.

And his saying: [And I do not say: "Their essence is mixed with His Essence because they are originated and He is Eternal, and they are created and He is the Creator"]; he negated that the Essence of the Eternal is mixed with the essence of the originated by way of intermingling (mumazajah); rather, it is [a connection of] direct presence (mubasharah) only, to establish Existence, so that ocular vision and Eternity may be valid.

Is Allah a Thing or a Body?"

Then the questioner said, after a long speech: [Is Allah a Thing (Shay') or a Body (Jism)?]

The Scholar (Al-Alim), may his might be exalted, said in another place, and in many places: "He is a Body."

Then the Scholar, may his might be exalted, said: "O Questioner! Indeed, the Body is a Thing, and the Thing is a Body; therefore, the names and the arguments are equivalent. And had the Thing been more distinct than the Body, your argument would have appeared [valid]."