Allah said,
﴿ذَلِكُـمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّـكُمْ﴾
(Such is Allah, your Lord!) Who created everything and has neither a son nor a wife,
﴿لا إِلَـهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ خَـلِقُ كُلِّ
شَىْءٍ فَاعْبُدُوهُ﴾
(None has the right to be worshipped but He, the Creator of all things. So worship
Him,) Alone without partners, and attest to His Oneness, affirming that there is
no deity worthy of worship except Him. Allah has neither descendants, nor acsendants,
wife, equal or rival,
﴿وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ وَكِيلٌ﴾
(And He is the Guardian over all things.) meaning, Trustee, Watcher and Disposer
of affairs for all things in existence, giving them provisions and protection by
day and night. Seeing Allah in the Hereafter Allah said,
﴿لاَّ تُدْرِكُهُ الاٌّبْصَـرُ﴾
(No vision can grasp Him) in this life. The vision will be able to look at Allah
in the Hereafter, as affirmed and attested to by the numerous Hadiths from the Prophet
through authentic chains of narration in the collections of the Sahihs, Musnad and
Sunan collections. As for this life, Masruq narrated that `A'ishah said, "Whoever
claims that Muhammad has seen his Lord, will have uttered a lie against Allah, for
Allah the Most Honored, says,
﴿لاَّ تُدْرِكُهُ الاٌّبْصَـرُ وَهُوَ
يُدْرِكُ الاٌّبْصَـرَ﴾
(No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision.)'' In the Sahih (Muslim)
it is recorded that Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari narrated from the Prophet ,
«إِنَّ اللهَ لَا يَنَامُ وَلَا يَنْبَغِي
لَهُ أَنْ يَنَامَ، يَخْفِضُ الْقِسْطَ وَيَرْفَعُهُ، يُرْفَعُ إِلَيْهِ عَمَلُ النَّهَارِ
قَبْلَ اللَّيْلِ، وَعَمَلُ اللَّيْلِ قَبْلَ النَّهَارِ، حِجَابُهُ النُّورُ أَوِ
النَّارُ لَوْ كَشَفَهُ لَأَحْرَقَتْ سَبُحَاتُ وَجْهِهِ مَا انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ بَصَرُهُ
مِنْ خَلْقِه»
(Verily, Allah does not sleep and it does not befit His majesty that He should sleep.
He lowers the scale (of everything) and raises it. The deeds of the day are ascended
to Him before the night, and the deeds of the night before the day. His Veil is
the Light -- or Fire -- and if He removes it (the veil), the Light of His Face will
burn every created thing that His sight reaches.) In the previous ﴿revealed﴾ Books
there is this statement, "When Musa requested to see Him, Allah said to Musa: `O
Musa! Verily, no living thing sees Me, but it dies and no dried things sees me,
but it rolls up.' '' Allah said,
﴿فَلَمَّا تَجَلَّى رَبُّهُ لِلْجَبَلِ
جَعَلَهُ دَكًّا وَخَرَّ موسَى صَعِقًا فَلَمَّآ أَفَاقَ قَالَ سُبْحَـنَكَ تُبْتُ
إِلَيْكَ وَأَنَاْ أَوَّلُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ﴾
(So when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He made it collapse to dust, and Musa
fell down unconscious. Then when he recovered his senses he said: "Glory be to You,
I turn to You in repentance and I am the first of the believers.'') ﴿7:143﴾. These
Ayat, Hadiths and statements do not negate the fact that Allah will be seen on the
Day of Resurrection by His believing servants, in the manner that He decides, all
the while preserving His might and grace as they are. The Mother of the Faithful,
`A'ishah, used to affirm that Allah will be seen in the Hereafter, but denied that
it could occur in this life, mentioning this Ayah as evidence,
﴿لاَّ تُدْرِكُهُ الاٌّبْصَـرُ وَهُوَ
يُدْرِكُ الاٌّبْصَـرَ﴾
(No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision.) Her denial was a denial
of the ability to encompass Him, meaning to perfectly see His grace and magnificance
as He is, for that is not possible for any human, angel or anything created. Allah's
statement,
﴿وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الاٌّبْصَـرَ﴾
(but His grasp is over all vision.) means, He encompasses all vision and He has
full knowledge of them, for He created them all. In another Ayah, Allah said;
﴿أَلاَ يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ
اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ ﴾
(Should not He Who has created know And He is the Most Subtle, Well Acquainted (with
all things).) ﴿67:14﴾ It is also possible that `all vision' refers to those who
have the vision. As-Suddi said that Allah's statement,
﴿لاَّ تُدْرِكُهُ الاٌّبْصَـرُ وَهُوَ
يُدْرِكُ الاٌّبْصَـرَ﴾
(No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision.) means, "Nothing sees
Him (in this life), but He sees all creation.'' Abu Al-`Aliyah said that Allah's
statement,
﴿وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ﴾
(He is the Most Subtle, Well-Acquainted (with all things).) means, "He is the Most
Subtle, bringing forth all things, Well-Acquainted with their position and place.''
Allah knows best. In another Ayah, Allah mentions Luqman's advice to his son,
﴿يبُنَىَّ إِنَّهَآ إِن تَكُ مِثْقَالَ
حَبَّةٍ مِّنْ خَرْدَلٍ فَتَكُنْ فِى صَخْرَةٍ أَوْ فِى السَّمَـوَتِ أَوْ فِى الاٌّرْضِ
يَأْتِ بِهَا اللَّهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَطِيفٌ خَبِيرٌ ﴾
(O my son! If it be (anything) equal to the weight of grain of mustard seed, and
though it be in a rock, or in the heavens or in the earth, Allah will bring it forth.
Verily, Allah is Most Subtle, Well Acquainted) ﴿31:16﴾
﴿قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ بَصَآئِرُ
مِن رَّبِّكُمْ فَمَنْ أَبْصَرَ فَلِنَفْسِهِ وَمَنْ عَمِىَ فَعَلَيْهَا وَمَآ أَنَاْ
عَلَيْكُمْ بِحَفِيظٍ - وَكَذلِكَ نُصَرِّفُ الاٌّيَـتِ وَلِيَقُولُواْ دَرَسْتَ وَلِنُبَيِّنَهُ
لِقَوْمٍ يَعْلَمُونَ ﴾
(104. Verily, Basa'ir (proofs) have come to you from your Lord, so whosoever sees,
will do so for (the good of) himself, and whosoever blinds himself, will do so against
himself, and I am not a Hafiz over you.) (105. Thus We explain variously the verses
so that they (the disbelievers) may say: "You have Darasta (studied)'' and that
We may make the matter clear for the people who have knowledge.)
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