and others. This report thus states that he faced the qiblah—the direction faced in prayer—while supplicating for rain. Since the qiblah for supplication is precisely the same as the qiblah for prayer, the Jahmī claim that the Throne and heaven are the qiblah for supplication contradicts the consensus of the Muslims and what is necessarily known of the religion of Islam. It is therefore among the most blatant falsehoods.

The second argument on this point, which is the eleventh overall, is that created beings’ turning their hearts, hands, and eyes towards heaven when supplicating is something innate, self-evident, and rational. It is not confined to adherents of religious traditions and revealed laws; rather, polytheists and others also do so, including those who neither know of the Throne nor hear of it