al-Futūhāt al-Makkiyya. When you taste this, you have tasted the ultimate limit, beyond which there is no further limit for a created being. So do not aspire or weary yourself trying to rise above this level, for there is nothing there at all; beyond it lies only sheer nonexistence.”

Statements like this abound in his writings, explicitly declaring that He cannot be seen except as He is seen in this world. He has explicitly stated that beyond the existence of created things there is only sheer nonexistence, thereby explicitly asserting the nonexistence of the Creator who created them.

If this is their position, then it is well known that the previously cited hadiths concerning His self-disclosure in a form, and the other hadiths concerning the vision of Allah, all make clear that they will see their Lord just as they see the sun and the moon. That vision will occur only in particular places and at particular times, when He discloses Himself to them. The prophetic texts explicitly state that they do not see Him in this world, and this