its own domain; for if a vacuum were sheer non-existence, it would be absent both inside and outside.
But if it is said that the void is something positively existent, then it would be required in both locations, and the claim that it does not exist would at once be invalidated.
The same applies to their discussions about the world’s alleged eternity: the philosophers possess not a single sound rational proof that clashes with what the messengers have reported. At most, their arguments contradict what some scholastic theologians merely imagine to be the message of the prophets, as has been explained elsewhere.
[Among the prophetic signs is his prayer for rain—peace and blessings be upon him—and the downpour that followed his supplication.]
The second category consists of atmospheric signs: his prayer for rain (istisqāʾ), his prayer for clear skies, the clouds’ obedience to him, and the descent of rain through his supplication, peace and blessings be upon him.
Both Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim record the report of Anas ibn Mālik that a man once entered the mosque on a Friday