but rather it is the lifting of the veil of darkness from the sights of the servants who are veiled from seeing their Creator, by the evidence of His, the Exalted's, saying: {No! Indeed, from their Lord, that Day, they will be partitioned} 1
And the veil of darkness which Allah lifted from the sights of the lookers is not a sensory veil that prevents vision like the veil that separates between two things, but rather it is the veil of halting, heedlessness, and disobedience, and the veil of sins that has stained the hearts, due to the saying of our Master as-Sadiq, glorified is his glory, when he was asked: Does Allah veil Himself with anything? So he said: "There is nothing greater than Him that could veil Him, but rather the servants veiled themselves from Him by the sin from them" and the lifting of this veil from them is in the meaning that He, glorified is He, enabled them to see Him, so they saw Him ocularly, clearly, and manifestly to them in His Essence.
But a questioner may ask, how did the servants see their Creator when He enabled them to see Him? For the Creator, glorified is He,