Some people do not wish to acknowledge the fact that Allah is everywhere. How can we explain this reality tosuch people?

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- > Some people imagine that they themselves, matter and the
world they see all around themare all absolute beings. But they regard
Allah (surely He is beyond that) as an imagination pervading that
absolute matter. Or else, since they cannot see Him with their own
eyes, they say: "Allah must be somewhere we cannot see, in space or
far awayfrom human eyes." (Surely Allah is beyond that.) But these are
all grave errors.
As the sole absolute being, Allah enfolds the whole universe, all
people and places, the heavens and everywhere. He is manifested in the
whole universe. According to the hadith, our Prophet (saas) said that
someonewho said that Allah was in the sky was telling thetruth. But
this account inno way conflicts with the fact that Allah is
everywhere. That is because if someone at your location on Earth
raises his hands and prays to Allah and thinks that Allah is in the
sky, while someone at the South Pole turns to Allah in the same way,
while someone else at the North Pole raises his hands and yet another
individual in Japan, or America or Ecuador raises his hands to the sky
in the same way and turns to Allah, then it is impossible to speak of
any fixed direction. In the same way, if djinn, angels and demons at
various points in space and the universe also pray toward the skies,
it will again be impossible to speak of any fixed direction, and the
situation will be one that covers the entire universe.
We must not also forget that Allah is unfettered by time and space.
Allah's Own Being is different. But the manifestations of Allah are
everywhere. If someone enters a room and says Allah is not there, he
is denying Allah. The manifestationsof Allah are in that room and
everywhere. Wherever you may turn, manifestations of Allah are there.
Several verses of the Qur'an state that Allah pervades all places,that
He is closer to us than our own jugular veins, and that we will see
His Face wherever we look. For example, in verse 255 of Surat
al-Baqara Allah says "... His Footstool encompasses the heavens and
the earth...." Verse 92 of Surah Hud says, "... But my Lord
encompasses everything that you do" meaning that Allah also pervades
what people do.