And among those who negate the vision entirely, both in the worldly life and the Hereafter, are the faction of the Mu'tazilah and some of the Imamiyyah among the Shi'ah.
They derived evidence for the absence of vision from the saying of the Exalted on the tongue of Moses—His might was mighty—when he said: [“My Lord, show me that I may look at You.” He said: “You will not see Me, but look at the mountain; if it should remain in its place, then you will see Me.”] 1 . So when his Lord manifested Himself to the mountain, He made it level, and Moses fell down unconscious—the verse. The two groups agreed on the absence of vision in the worldly life, but differed regarding the vision in the Hereafter: one negated it in both stages, and the other affirmed it in one of them, and both are in error and fallacy regarding what they believed and went toward.