of another kind, saying, “It entails wonder, which is impossible because it entails ignorance”?
The fourth example concerns the veil. Allah Most High said:
“No indeed! On that Day they will be veiled from their Lord.” (15) [al-Mutaffifīn 15]
He cited several reports, including one narrated by the author of Sharh al-Sunnah in the chapter on refuting the Jahmiyyah, from Abū Mūsā, who said:
“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, stood among us and delivered five statements. He said: ‘Allah does not sleep, nor is it fitting for Him to sleep. He lowers the balance and raises it. The deeds of the night are raised to Him before the deeds of the day, and the deeds of the day before the deeds of the night. His veil is light. Were He to remove it, the splendour of His Face would burn all of His creation that His sight reaches.’”