Thus, the fact that the observer—namely, the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace—sees Him while in one place, does not see Him while in another, and returns to that first place demonstrates that the One seen is visible when the observer is in one place but not when he is in another. Such a restriction can apply only to something that lies in a direction relative to the observer, unlike what they call vision, which is of the same kind as knowledge, with [no] restriction to the observer’s being in one place rather than another.

Furthermore, the two Sahīh collections contain a report narrated by Abū ‘Imrān al-Jawnī from Abū