They retort, “Surely it is obvious that there are no fingers of the True One inside our hearts.” The reply to them is: Had you granted the revealed texts their proper evidentiary weight, you would have realized that they point only to the truth. Consider just one ḥadith: the Prophet said, “The Black Stone is the right hand of Allah on earth; whoever grasps it and kisses it, it is as though he had shaken hands with Allah and kissed His right hand.” This wording is explicit that the Black Stone is neither an attribute of Allah nor His very right hand, for he said, “the right hand of Allah on earth,” and he said, “Whoever kisses it and shakes hands with it, it is as though he had…"