Surah 89:21–23
"No! When the earth has been leveled-pounded, pounded and crushed, and your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank, and brought within view, that Day, is Hell—that Day man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?"
The text details the terrifying judicial architecture of the Last Day, explicitly declaring: "And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank."
The Physical Motion Error: The verb jāʾa means to physically arrive, approach, or move from one spatial coordinate to another. To a philosopher or critical theologian, this verse poses a massive threat to the concept of an omnipotent, omnipresent, non-material deity.
The Theological Fracture: If God is an infinite, non-spatial spirit who is outside of physical boundaries, He cannot logically "arrive" or "come" anywhere. True movement requires an entity to be absent from a location, travel across space, and then occupy a new coordinate.
The Scholastic Gymnastics: Much like the problems found in Surah 67 and Surah 50, this literal anthropomorphism caused centuries of bitter theological warfare in early Islam. Rationalist schools like the Jahmites and Mu'tazilites were forced to radically alter the text via Ta'weel (metaphorical reinterpretation), claiming the verse actually meant "the command of your Lord comes." However, the traditionalist Athari school rejected this, maintaining that God physically "comes" in a literal manner befitting His majesty.
The Critique: To a historical critic, the text is not operating on advanced, transcendent metaphysics. It is drawing a direct, literal cartoon of an ancient Near Eastern monarchical court. God is envisioned exactly like an earthly emperor or tribal chief, marching physically into a grand judgment arena accompanied by ranked rows (ṣaffan ṣaffan) of his military guards (angels) to sit on a throne and dispense decrees.