So he said: As for what is adjacent to the people of the earth, no; and as for what is adjacent to the high, then yes, its Originator is higher than it, for if the light of the Divinity appeared to it in its perfection, it would have burned it and it would have melted just as lead melts."

And it came in the epistle of Tadhkirat al-Arifin: "If Allah appeared in His Essence, they would have all died. Did you not see Moses when he asked the Truth to see Him, He said to him: {You will not see Me, but look at the mountain; if it should remain in its place, then you will see Me. But when his Lord manifested to the mountain, He made it level, and Moses fell unconscious} So if His interlocutor and His prophet did not see Him, how could he who is below him see Him? But Moses asked for the vision of Allah in His totality upon the tongue of the seventy men who were with him when they said: We will not believe you until we see Allah outright, meaning a total vision, not a vision of witnessing, and that was so they could see the capability of Allah and His grandness.

So when Allah manifested in His totality, the mountain was leveled and Moses was struck unconscious,