And they also support [their argument] by the saying of the Exalted: “Vision perceives Him not,” 1 yet it escaped them that the meaning of “perceives Him not” (la tudrikuhu) is that it does not encompass Him, it does not mean that it does not see Him. And how can the effect encompass the cause, or the partial, shackled being encompass the absolute, universal Being? And if vision by encompassing and total perception is precluded from us with respect to the Sublimed Essence—and that is inevitably an actual fact—then it is not precluded from us to see in accordance with the amount of ability and possibility by means of manifestation (al-tajalli) and through a special property that He, the Exalted,
measures out for us in accordance with His power, against which nothing is precluded. And if it is impossible for us to encompass the Atlantic Ocean while we
standing upon its shore; then is it impossible for us to see from it in accordance with our capability, our capacity, and the encompassment of our eyesights?
And there are explicit verses that declare with clarity that Allah, Glory be to Him, is seen in the Hereafter; and if the matter were as those who negate the vision entirely claim, the likes of these verses would not have been revealed in His Mighty Book. He—Majestic is his mention—said: “Faces, that Day, will be radiant, looking toward their Lord,” and in this is an indication that the righteous believers who purified their religion and their inner secrets for Allah will see their Lord on the Day of Resurrection with bright, luminous faces. And He—Majestic is his praise—said: [“And your Lord comes and the angels, rank upon rank,”] 2 . And He, Glory be to Him, said: