Therefore He will not be contained in time and space...

Therefore He will not be contained in time and space, while He is everywhere and at any time, because He is above space and time. "It is He who is Allah in heavens and Allah on earth, and He is full of wisdom and knowledge." (Holy Qur’an, 43: 84). "And He is with you where ever you may be, and Allah sees all that you do." (Holy Qur’an, 57: 4). Yes, He is nearer to us than ourselves.

He is through our soul and everywhere, and in the meanwhile, He has not a certain place: "It was we who created man, and We know the promptings of his soul.... For We are nearer to him than his jugular vein." (Holy Qur’an, 50: 16). "He is the first and the last, the visible and the invisible, and He has full knowledge of all things." (Holy Qur’an, 85: 15).

Therefore if we read in Holy Qur’an that: `He is the owner of Arsh' (which means either throne or empyrean) or `He sat upon His throne'; or `His throne does extend over the heaven and earth;' none of these verses mean that He may have a certain place. (these are all metaphors) These are to express His sovereignty over every thing and every place.

If we consider Him to have a certain place, we have limited Him by giving Him the attributes of His creatures, while we know that: `nothing is like Him'. (Holy Qur’an, 42:11) And; ‘…there is none equal to Him!’ (Holy Qur’an, 112:4). God Has No Material Body and No Eye Can Ever See Him We believe that God can never be seen by the physical eyes; because the object of seeing by the eyes is a material body that has to have place, color, form and direction.

These are all the qualifications of the creatures, and not that of the creator. God is quite far from that. Therefore the belief that one may physically see God is a sort of going astray in this field, a sort of polytheism.

"No vision can grasp Him, but He grasps all visions." (Holy Qur’an, 6:103) This is why when the Israelites objected, asking Moses to let them see God: he took them to the Mount Sinai, and as mentioned in the Holy Qur’an: "And when Moses came to a place appointed by us, (on the Mount Sinai) his lord addressed him; and Moses said: "O my Lord! Show thyself to me: (let me see you) that I may look upon You!

Allah said: " By no means can you see me; but look upon the mountain, if it abides in its place, then you may see me." When his lord manifested His glory on the mountain it turned into dust, and Moses fell down into a swoon. When he recovered his senses, he said: "Glory be to thee!