As for your report that Ibn ‘Abbās explained His words, “For you are under Our eyes,” as meaning “Under Our protection and watchful care”—if your report from Ibn ‘Abbās is authentic, its meaning is what we have maintained, not what you have maintained. We say: “Under Our protection and watchful care, with Our eyes.” For in Arabic usage, no one can be described as keeping watch unless the one keeping watch has eyes. If you are unaware of this, name something without eyes that is described as keeping watch. Keeping watch derives originally from looking. A man may keep watch without looking, but he must nevertheless be someone who has eyes. The same is meant by your saying, “Allah’s eye is upon you.” Understand this.

We have explained some of this earlier in our book, but you have repeated it for a purpose of your own, out of resentment toward those who believe that Allah Most High will be seen on the Day of Resurrection.

After explaining that Allah has called some of His creatures by some of His own names, without this implying any likeness, Imam Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishāq ibn Khuzaymah said: “Our Lord, Glorious and Exalted, is the Light, and Allah Most High has called some of His creatures light,