Tenth: Anyone who reflects on these texts without bias, considers the explanations transmitted from the early generations, and examines similar reports narrated from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, thereby gains immediate knowledge—of the most certain kind—that the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, affirmed what these texts convey and that Allah is above the world. Such immediate knowledge cannot be overturned by reinterpretations. A detailed treatment of these answers and others belongs elsewhere.

Al-Rāzī then said: “The answer to their fifth argument—that above is the noblest direction, so the Creator must be exclusively in that direction—is that those who maintain that the earth is spherical hold that all directions of the celestial sphere are above