The twentieth argument is that the Lord’s being a God who is worshipped necessarily entails that He is in a direction relative to His worshipper. Worship involves seeking the One worshipped, desiring Him, and directing the heart toward Him. A person senses this within himself in relation to everything he desires, aims at, seeks, and loves—things he pursues, loves, and seeks less intensely than he pursues, loves, and seeks his objects of worship. As Allah Most High says:

“Among people are those who take others as equals to Allah, loving them as they love Allah. But those who believe are stronger in their love for Allah.” [al-Baqarah 165]

A person senses within himself that whenever he seeks or loves something other than himself, it must be in a direction relative to him. If he is told, “Seek, pursue, worship, or love one who is not in any direction relative to you, neither within you, nor above you, nor below you, nor before you, nor behind you, nor to your right, nor to your left,” this is a command to do something intrinsically impossible, not something possible that is beyond his ability. Muslims unanimously agree that religious law cannot command what is intrinsically impossible. Such a command would really mean: “Worship one whom it is impossible to worship; seek one whom it is impossible to seek; call upon one whom it is impossible to call upon; and turn your face toward one toward whom it is impossible to turn.” This is a command to combine two mutually contradictory things.