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(ix) Seeing
The ninth principle: Is the knowledge that He - the High - although exalted from form and quantity
and
exalted above directions and dimensions, is nevertheless seen with the eyes in the Hereafter, the
Everlasting abode. For He said,
"On that Day there shall be radiant faces, gazing towards their Lord." (Ch.74:22-23 Koran).
But He cannot be seen in this world according to His saying - the Mighty, the Glorified -:
"No eye can see Him, He sees all eyes" (Ch.6:103 Koran).
And according to His Words in addressing Moses - peace be upon him: "You shall not see Me." Would
that I knew how the Mu'tazilites knew the attributes of Allah that Moses himself did not know; or
how
Moses asked to see Allah when seeing Him was impossible! Ignorance is more likely to be rampant
among heretics and sectarians than among the prophets - the praise of Allah be upon them -. As for
the
reason of taking the verse describing seeing literally it is because it does not lead to the
The ninth principle: Is the knowledge that He - the High - although exalted from form and quantity
and
exalted above directions and dimensions, is nevertheless seen with the eyes in the Hereafter, the
Everlasting abode. For He said,
"On that Day there shall be radiant faces, gazing towards their Lord." (Ch.74:22-23 Koran).
But He cannot be seen in this world according to His saying - the Mighty, the Glorified -:
"No eye can see Him, He sees all eyes" (Ch.6:103 Koran).
And according to His Words in addressing Moses - peace be upon him: "You shall not see Me." Would
that I knew how the Mu'tazilites knew the attributes of Allah that Moses himself did not know; or
how
Moses asked to see Allah when seeing Him was impossible! Ignorance is more likely to be rampant
among heretics and sectarians than among the prophets - the praise of Allah be upon them -. As for
the
reason of taking the verse describing seeing literally it is because it does not lead to the