My Book About God — Page 84
84 Bushra— The Holy Quran tells us that Allah is Self- Subsisting and All Sustaining which means that Allah supports everything while He, Himself, requires no support. Therefore it is not true to say that the angels are supporting the Throne on which Allah is sitting. Perhaps your teacher was referring to the verses of the Holy Quran, which if translated literally mean what you have just described. But we cannot take those verses lit- erally. I will explain to you. The word Arsh is used in the Holy Quran as a metaphor. God has no physical body; therefore He does not need a throne made of bricks, stones or some other material, to sit on. God is limitless. He is on earth as He is in heaven. Therefore to think that He is confined to a limited space is totally wrong.