The ruling on the statement: “Allah is in every place”

Question:
This questioner, Muhammad Abbas, is a Sudanese resident in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He says: I ask Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan to kindly answer my questions. His first question is: What is the ruling on people who believe and say that Allah is present in every place? We ask for the evidence and explanation regarding this. May you be rewarded.

Answer:
Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, is the Most High, the Supreme.
Above His creation, based on numerous proofs from the Book, the Sunnah, and fitrah (the innate natural disposition), and the scholarly consensus (ijma') that Allah is in the height. Allah the Exalted said: He said: "And He is the Most High, the Magnificent, and He is the Subduer above His servants," , and other proofs indicating His elevation, to the point that some scholars said that the proofs of Allah's elevation above His creation reached one thousand proofs.
The Shaykh and Imam, Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi (may Allah have mercy on him), wrote a standalone book on the height called *Al-Ulu li-‘Ali al-Ghaffar* (The Height of the Most High, the Forgiver). In it, he cited the proofs, the consensus of the people of knowledge, and the fitrah. So the supplicant, even if he is a commoner or a Bedouin who has not read the books, when he wants to make du'a' (supplication), he raises his gaze to the sky, turns toward the sky, and raises his hands to the sky. This is fitrah.
It is a fitrah from Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. When a man wanted to free a slave girl he owned, he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to seek his permission for that. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the slave girl: “Free her, for she is a believer.” Allah is the Greatest.
He described her as a believer because she believed that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is in the sky. The one who says that Allah is in every place is a disbeliever (kafir), because this is the doctrine of the Hululiyyah (those who believe in the indwelling of the divine in creation), because he denied Allah’s height above His creation and contradicted the Book, the Sunnah, and the consensus of the Muslims. So he is a disbeliever. Second, he did not purify Allah from places of filth. If he says “in every place,” this includes the bushes and the dirty places. Glorified is Allah above that, with a great exaltation. So the belief of the Muslims is that Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, is above the heavens, established (istiwa') upon His Throne, distinct from His creation. And the one who says otherwise is misguided and a disbeliever regarding Allah, Mighty and Majestic. Yes.