the intended meaning of the mentioned verse (Do you feel secure that He who is in the heaven) is: He who is above the heaven, meaning: above the Throne; as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr stated (7/129, 130, and 134) and others, such as al-Bayhaqī in "al-Asmāʾ" (377), where he said: "meaning: above the heaven." This interpretation is the only one that can be accepted by those who acknowledge the numerous texts from the Quran and the sunnah that unanimously affirm the exaltation and elevation of Allāh in a manner befitting His greatness; as in His saying about the angels: (They fear their Lord above them) and other well-known verses. This is the stance of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamāʿah, in contrast to the Muʿtazilah and Jahmiyyah who claim: Allāh is in every place and not on the Throne! as mentioned in "al-Tamhīd" (7/129). It is astonishing that these deniers, in their attempt to purify their Lord from being above the creations, confined Him within them. As narrated about Bishr al-Marīsī, when he said: He is in everything! He was asked: Even in your cap? He said: Yes. He was asked: Even inside a donkey? He said: Yes! This statement is a necessary consequence for anyone who claims that He, exalted is He, is in every place, and it is among the most invalid statements made about the wise and forbearing Lord of the worlds. Therefore, some of the Salaf said: We can recount the words of the Jews and Christians, but we cannot recount the words of the Jahmiyyah! Due to the clear invalidity of this statement to some of the scholars of kalām, they fled to an even more invalid claim, and I heard it with my own ears from some preachers on the pulpit on Friday: Allāh is neither above nor below, neither to the right nor to the left, neither in front nor behind, neither inside the world nor outside it, and some philosophers added: neither connected to it nor separate from it!!