I only commanded the angels and all of creation to prostrate and to make the closeness with Him. He said, prostrate and draw near, and he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said the closest a servant is to God in his prostration

So that they would know that the truth is in attributing superiority to Him from His saying, “And He is the Omnipotent, above His servants,” and that they should fear. Their Lord is from above them, as the relation of the lower to Him, for prostration seeks the lower with His face, just as standing seeks the upper when he raises his face in supplication and his hands. God has made prostration a state of closeness to God, so He, Glory be to Him, did not restrict it from above from below, nor from below from above, for He is the Creator of above and below, just as being on the Throne did not restrict it from above. Descent to the lower heaven, and the descent to the lower heaven did not restrict him from ascending to the Throne, just as the a