“Every child is born upon the innate disposition; then his parents make him a Jew, a Christian, or a Magian, just as an animal gives birth to an intact offspring. Do you see any mutilation in it?”

Allah Most High says:

“So set your face toward the religion, inclining to truth, in accordance with the innate disposition with which Allah created mankind. There is no changing Allah’s creation. That is the upright religion, but most people do not know.”

Thus, in worship and supplication, the revealed law accords with the innate disposition, unlike the ways of those astray among the polytheists, the philosophizing Sabians, and others. They have altered the innate disposition in both knowledge and will, contradicting both reason and revelation, as we have explained at length elsewhere.

It is established through several routes in the two Sahīh collections that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“When any of you stands to pray, he must not spit in front of him, for Allah is before him; nor to his right, for there is an angel to his right. Rather, he should spit to his left or beneath his foot.”

Another version states that “he permitted spitting into one’s garment.”

In the well-known hadith that Abū Razīn narrated from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—he related:

“When the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—announced that everyone would be alone with his Lord, Abū Razīn asked him, ‘How can He accommodate us, O Messenger of Allah, when He is One and we are so many?’ He replied, ‘I shall tell you of something comparable among Allah’s wonders: this moon is one of Allah’s signs. Each of you sees it while alone with it. Allah is greater still.’”

It is well known that someone who turns toward the moon and addresses it—assuming that he could address it—does not