gazing upon the Noble Face of Allah, as is recorded in Sahih Muslim (1).

Allah, Exalted be He, also says: “There they shall have whatever they wish, and with Us there is yet more” ⦗50:35⦘. That “more” is the privilege of looking upon the Noble Face of Allah.

He further says about the unbelievers: “No indeed! On that Day they will be veiled from their Lord” ⦗83:15⦘. Since the disbelievers will be screened from Allah—meaning they will not see Him because they rejected Him in this life—they will be barred from beholding Him on the Day of Resurrection. This is the severest deprivation and the most painful torment—may Allah protect us. The verse therefore implies that the believers will not be veiled from their Lord on that Day; rather, they will see Him with their own eyes in the Hereafter, for they believed in Him in this world without seeing Him, relying instead on His signs and His messengers. Consequently Allah will honor them with the beatific vision on the Day of Resurrection.

Beholding the Face of Allah, Majestic and Exalted, is the greatest bliss of Paradise.

Such is the creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa’l-Jama‘ah, and the foregoing are some of their Quranic proofs. As for the proofs from the Sunnah, they are extremely numerous—so numerous that they attain the level of tawātur. The distinguished scholar Ibn al-Qayyim notes this in his valuable work Hādī al-Arwāḥ ilā Bilād al-Afrāḥ, where he assembles the hadiths concerning the Beatific Vision, all of which reach the grade of tawātur.