these signs guide the rational person toward the negation of physical limbs and demonstrate that their Possessor encompasses the earths and the heavens. [How then can you establish that the Originator is a body?] 1
[31]Abu al-Haytham Malik ibn al-Tayyihan, peace be upon him, was once asked: "O Abu al-Haytham, [were you all] 2 physical bodies?" He replied: "Far be it from God! Indeed, when God wills to manifest, He manifests us alongside Him in His manifestation; and when He is hidden, we remain [with Him]3 as lights and spiritual phantoms (ashbah)."
Therefore, if Abu al-Haytham, peace be upon him, is merely one of His servants and did not establish that he himself was a physical body, how then could the Originator be a body? Exalted is God high above all circumscription, with consummate sublimity.