of Himself, invoking the Lord’s silence concerning what He has not named of His attributes.(1) Satan kept on whispering to him,(2) until he denied the word of Allah, Mighty and Exalted be He: “Some faces that Day will be radiant(22), gazing at their Lord.(23)”(3) He claimed, “No one will behold Him(4) on the Day of Resurrection.”(5) By Allah, he has thereby rejected the greatest honor with which Allah will grace His friends on that Day: the vision of His Face and His bestowal of splendour upon them—“in a seat of truth, in the presence of a Sovereign, Perfect in Ability.”(6) By looking at Him they themselves are made radiant, until he went on to say: he denied the beatific vision on the Day of Resurrection only to prop up a misleading, deviant argument,(7) for he knew(8) that when Allah unveils Himself to them on that Day they will behold with their own eyes what they had previously affirmed in faith, even though he had denied it.(9)

The Muslims asked, “O Messenger of Allah, shall we see our Lord?” The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—replied, “Do you experience any difficulty(10) in seeing the sun when no cloud veils it?” They said, “No.” He said, “Do you experience any difficulty(11) in seeing the moon on the night it is full, when no cloud veils it?” They said, “No.” He said, “You will see your Lord in just the same way on that Day.”(12)