The Refutation of Those Who Cite the Verse "Then Face the Direction of Allah" to Argue That Allah Is Everywhere

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, how do we respond to those who cite the verse as evidence that Allah is in every place?

Answer:
This is invalid. We respond to them by saying that this is invalid according to the doctrine of the Hululiyyah, and it is disbelief. The doctrine of the Hululiyyah is disbelief. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) is in the height. Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) is in the height. He is the Most High, the Most Exalted. He is not everywhere; rather, His knowledge is everywhere. His knowledge and His encompassing awareness (Glorified and Exalted is He). As for His Essence (Glorified and Exalted is He), it is in the height, as the evidence has been mass-transmitted regarding this, and as is the requirement of the fitrah (innate natural disposition) with which Allah created people. No one, when they wish to make du'a' (supplication), especially the one who is fasting, or the disbelievers, do not turn to the right or the left; they turn upward. Even if their fitrah is such, they raise their hands upward. The fitrah is like this. So Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) is in the height. As for the one who says that He is everywhere, that is a corrupt atheist who does not purify Allah from the bushes, from filth, and from foul places. Exalted is Allah above that. Rather, His knowledge is everywhere.