How does one respond to the assertion that Allah the Almighty is not confined to a place, and that the sky is merely the direction of prayer, the descent of mercies, and its ultimate destination is annihilation, citing His exalted saying: "The Day We will fold the heaven like the folding of a [written] scroll for [its] records" (21:104), and the Hadith: "The heaven creaked, and it has the right to creak, for there is no space in it except that there is an angel standing, bowing, or prostrating therein"?

The statement "the sky is the qiblah of supplication" is an innovation of the people of bid'ah and desires, from among the Ash'aris and Jahmiyyah, to deny Allah's transcendence. They claim that people's turning their hearts and hands towards the sky in supplication is a turning towards the qiblah of supplication, just as they turn towards the Kaaba as the qiblah of prayer. Imam Al-Albani denied the existence of any basis for this alleged hadith. Ibn Abil-Izz Al-Hanafi said that none of the predecessors of the Ummah ever uttered this statement, and that it is an innovation that contradicts the consensus of Muslims. He indicated that the qiblah of supplication is the qiblah of prayer, and that the qiblah is what the worshipper faces with his countenance, while turning the heart towards transcendence is an innate matter. Sheikhul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah affirmed that everyone who supplicates to Allah finds in his heart an urgent need to seek transcendence, and that our saying "Allah is in the sky" means He is above the sky and above it, not that the sky encompasses Him.