Some cases of abrogation in the Qur’an and Hadiths were unmistakable in the texts themselves: the Qur’an’s command to Muhammad and the Muslims to turn their faces away from ‘the direction of prayer that you faced before’ (Jerusalem) to a new one, one that ‘pleases your heart,’ the Sacred Mosque in Mecca (2:143–50); Muhammad’s command to his followers that, ‘I had prohibited you from visiting graves, but visit them, for indeed in visiting them there is a reminder [of death].’
