And they said: "He, glorified is He, appeared from His aspect, yet we saw Him from our aspect." So their saying (appeared from His aspect) means: by His supreme Essence, His grand luminosity, and His capability that is neither bounded, nor described, nor encompassed, nor perceived.

And their saying (yet we saw Him from our aspect) means: with our attribute and in our form, according to our sense of sight, while He, glorified is He, is contrary to what we saw. For this reason, they said: "The vision of Allah is other than Allah."

Al-Makzun, Allah sanctified him, said:

And He is other than what you saw, and above every statement said concerning Him

He is exalted.

And he, Allah sanctified him, said:

And other than You is what appears to him, so it vanishes during the state of witnessing.

The Erudite Sheikh Sulayman al-Ahmad, Allah sanctified him, said in the commentary: "Meaning that what appears to the looker is other than You, just as what appears in the mirror is other than it.