During the Jahiliyyah, the people believed that the stars and other heavenly bodies could bring about rainfall in a real sense. The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) was keen to bring his ummah forth from Jahiliyyah (the time of ignorance), with all that it entailed of the evils and sins of shirk, to Islam and its teachings, with all that they contain of goodness and Tawhid (affirmation of the oneness of Allah). In this hadith, Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) prayed Fajr at al-Hudaybiyyah – which is a village near Makkah; it is called al-Hudaybiyyah after the name of a well in the village – after it had rained at night. When the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said the taslim at the end of the prayer, he turned to face the people and asked them: Do you know what your Lord (may He be glorified and exalted) said? They replied: Allah and His Messenger know best. This is an example of the good manners of the Sahabah (may Allah be pleased with them), as they referred the matter to Allah (may He be glorified and exalted) and to His Messenger (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). He said: Allah (may He be exalted) said: “This morning, some of My slaves became believers in Me and some became disbelievers.” What is meant is that with regard to the falling of rain, the people fell into two categories: a category who believed in Allah (may He be exalted) and did not associate anything with Him, and a category who disbelieved in the oneness of Allah (may He be exalted). As for the one who said, We got rain by the grace and mercy of Allah, he attributed the falling of rain to Allah (may He be exalted); such a one is a believer in the oneness of Allah, and a disbeliever in the heavenly bodies. As for the one who said, We got rain by virtue of the position of the moon, such a one is a disbeliever in Allah and a believer in the heavenly bodies. Hence the one who attributes rainfall and other natural phenomena to the movement and the rising and setting of heavenly bodies, believing that it is the heavenly bodies that are the real cause of those events, is a mushrik (polytheist) and a disbeliever in Tawhid al-Rububiyyah (the oneness of divine Lordship). That does not apply to the one who means, when he says that, that Allah (may He be glorified and exalted) has made the position of the moon a sign of imminent rain, or the time for rain, or a cause of it. Such a person is a believer, not a disbeliever, but at the same time he must understand that the fall of rain happens by the wisdom, mercy and might of Allah (may He be exalted), and not by means of anything else, because sometimes rain may fall at the time of a certain position of the moon, and sometimes it may not be connected to that; rather it happens however Allah wills, and there is no god worthy of worship except Him. What is best for every believer is to say what the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) taught us: “We got rain by the grace and mercy of Allah.” In this hadith, we see that the imam may pose a question to his companions in order to prompt them to reflect on the subtleties of an issue. It also indicates that the imam may turn to face the congregation after the prayer..