As for (limits and directions): their intent in declaring Him free of them is that there is no Lord above the heavens, nor a God over the Throne, nor can He be pointed to with fingers, since if that were the case, it would necessitate affirming limits and directions, and He is free of that...
As for (the inherence of newly originated events): they mean by it that He does not speak by His power and will, nor does He descend every night to the lowest heaven, nor does He come, nor does He become angry after being pleased, nor does He become pleased after being angry, nor does any action subsist in Him whatsoever, nor any renewed matter after it was not, nor does He will anything after not having willed it...). End quote.
He denied Al-Ḥadd for God Almighty in his epistle which he named: Al-Risāla al-Nāṣiḥa, saying: "And from this category is that a group of them [meaning: the Sunnis] claimed that God has Al-Ḥadd, and the highest evidence they used for that was a story from Ibn al-Mubārak... etc."
Ibn Taymiyya, May Allah have mercy on him, mentioned this statement of his in Bayān Talbīs al-Jahmiyya (1/442) and refuted him, as will come in the appendix of this Book.
He said in negating the establishment (al-istiwāʾ) (1/166): "(He is exalted and blessed above being carried, or having Al-Ḥadd, or being encompassed)!"
He said: "He established Himself (istawā) means He is high (ʿalā), but he does not mean by that the highness of distance and spatial confinement,
