verses indicate that He comes and arrives, which entails that He will be seen, as explicitly stated in the hadiths that explain the Book of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.

Sixteenth: The hadith of Ibn Masʿūd distinguishes between the coming of the Lord Himself and the coming of all the other objects of worship. This explains what is related in the other hadiths, where he says:

“Then a caller will call out, ‘O people! Would you not be content for your Lord—who created you, provided for you, and commanded you to worship Him without associating anything with Him—to assign each of you to whatever he used to follow and worship in this world? Is that not justice from your Lord?’ They will reply, ‘Yes.’”

He said: “Then each group will proceed to whatever they used to worship and follow in this world.”

He said: “They will proceed, and likenesses of what they used to worship will appear before them. Some will proceed to the sun, others to the moon, to idols of stone, and to likenesses of whatever they used to worship.”

He said: “The devil associated with Jesus will appear to those who used to worship Jesus, and the devil associated with Ezra will appear to those who used to worship Ezra.”

He said: “Then the Lord will appear to them and come to them, saying, ‘Why do you not proceed as the other people have?’ They will reply, ‘We have a God whom we have not yet seen.’ He will say, ‘Would you recognize Him if you saw Him?’ They will reply, ‘Yes. There is a sign between us and Him: when we see it, we will recognize Him.’”

He said: “He will ask, ‘What is it?’ They will reply, ‘He will uncover His shin.’”

He said: “At that point He will uncover His shin.”

He said: “Then down falls whoever had