Allāmah Ibn ‘Uthaimeen said:

"There appears in some books of the people of theological rhetoric (ahlul-kalām) where they say:

‘It is not allowed to describe Allah with being in particular direction at all.’ They reject the highness of Allah and that He is above, thinking that affirming this direction for Allah necessitates placing limits upon Him. But this is not the case because we know that above the Throne there is nothing from the creation, there is none over it except Allah, and there is absolutely nothing of His creation that encompasses or confines Him.

So we say: Allah is in the direction of above because Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said to the slave-girl:

'Where is Allah?’ The term ‘where’ is seeking to know the place. So she said: ‘Above the sky.’ So she affirmed that Allah is above, and the Prophet (ﷺ) confirmed that and said: ‘Free her, for she is a believer.’ So the direction affirmed for Allah is not lowly – and the highness of Allah is affirmed for Him by way of the fitrah (innate nature), sound intellect and the revealed text.

The affirmation of direction for Allah is not encompassment of Him because of the fact that His Footstool (al-Kursee) extends over the Heavens and Earth, and it is the place of His two feet, so how can He be confined by anything from His creations!?

So He is in the direction of above without any confinement, and it is not permitted to say: ‘There is something that confines Him or encompasses Him.’ We say: There is over the ‘Arsh (the Throne) nothing besides Allah, the Most Perfect, free of all imperfections.”

[See Majmoo’ Fatāwā war-Rasā’il Al-‘Uthaimeen 10/1131]

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