When the servant acknowledges this, his heart comes to have One toward whom it can turn, communing with Him with head bowed, standing before Him like a lowly servant before a mighty king. He then senses that his words and deeds ascend to Him and are presented before Him, so he is ashamed that any words of his should ascend to Him that would disgrace and expose him there. He strives to speak and do good, knowing that He—Glorified is He—says, “To Him ascends good speech, and righteous deeds raise it.” 1

Thus, none deny that Allah is above His creation except the misguided and ignorant among people—those whose natural dispositions have been altered, whose beliefs have deviated, and whom Satan has turned away from the straight path. Otherwise, how could any rational person deny that Allah is above, given the abundance and variety of evidence demonstrating it? One such proof, as previously stated, is that whenever all believers supplicate Allah, they raise their hands to Him and extend them toward Him. This constitutes their consensus that Allah is above His creation.

Abū al-Hasan al-Ash'arī said, “We have seen that all Muslims raise their hands toward the Throne when they supplicate, just as they do not lower them toward the earth when supplicating.”

His argument—may Allah have mercy on him—appeals to the Muslims’ consensus on raising their hands in supplication as proof that Allah is above His heavens, exalted over His creation, for it is to Him Himself—and no other—that they raise their hands.

For this reason, most of those who deny that Allah is above the Throne neglect supplicating Allah, asking Him, and worshiping Him in proportion to the denial rooted in their hearts that Allah is above