and rising over the Throne:

“Once it is established that He is on the Throne, the Throne is in a direction, and He is on the Throne. In several places in this book, we have prohibited applying the term ‘direction’ to Him. The correct position, however, is that this is permissible, because Ahmad affirmed this attribute—rising over the Throne—and affirmed that He is in heaven. Everyone who affirms this affirms direction, including the followers of Ibn Karrām and the hadith scholar Ibn Mandah al-Asbahānī.”

He said: “The evidence for this is that the Throne is in a direction, without disagreement, and the explicit text of the Quran establishes that He has risen over it. This therefore entails that He is in a direction. Furthermore, every rational person, whether Muslim or unbeliever, raises his hands and turns his face towards heaven when supplicating. This is sufficient evidence. Moreover, those among the Muʿtazilah and the Ashʿarīs who deny direction say, ‘He is neither in a direction nor outside it.’ Someone said: ‘This is comparable to affirming that one being exists alongside another, while the existence of neither precedes nor follows that of the other.’ And because