Most High:

“So exalted is Allah, the True King! There is no deity worthy of worship except Him, Lord of the Noble Throne.”

Thus, He also describes the Throne as noble. Likewise, in the two Sahīh collections, Ibn ‘Abbās, may Allah be pleased with them both, reports that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would say in times of distress:

“There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, the Magnificent, the Forbearing. There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, Lord of the Mighty Throne. There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, Lord of the heavens and Lord of the earth, Lord of the Noble Throne.”

Thus, in this hadith too, he describes the Throne as mighty and noble.

As for the disputant’s statement:

“The relation of the highest celestial sphere to what lies beneath it is like that of another sphere to what lies beneath it.”

If the Throne belonged to the same kind as the celestial spheres, its relation to what lies beneath it would be like that of another sphere to what lies beneath it. This would not warrant treating it as a distinct kind or singling it out for mention, just as it does not warrant singling out one heaven rather than another—even though, according to these people, the higher heaven relates to the lower as one celestial sphere does to another. It would differ from what lies beneath it only by being larger, just as the higher heaven differs from the lower.

Indeed, the relation of the heaven to the air, and that of the air to the water and the earth, is like the relation of one celestial sphere to another. Yet He has not singled out any of these kinds, as distinct from what adjoins it, either for mention or by describing it as noble, glorious, and mighty.

Moreover, it is known that it is not the cause of their existence or their motions. Rather, they have motions of their own. It is therefore impermissible to say that its motion is the cause of events. Indeed, if the motion of the celestial spheres causes events, the motions peculiar to the other spheres are more numerous. Nor does its encompassing them necessarily mean that it is larger than all of them combined, unless it has sufficient thickness to match their combined size. Otherwise, it is well known that