in his eyes: if Allah were to take all the humans, jinn, animals, birds and everything else He has created, and place the light of all their eyes into a single eye of one of His servants, then remove just one veil from the sun—which lies behind seventy veils—that servant would still be unable to look at the sun. The sun is one-seventieth of the light of the Kursī; the Kursī is one-seventieth of the light of the Throne; and the Throne is one-seventieth of the light of the veil. So consider how much light Allah Most High has given His servant in his eyes, that he should behold the Face of his noble Lord with his own eyes.”

But the hadith master Abū ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mandah said: “The fourth is the report narrated by Imām Abū Bakr ibn Abī ‘Āsim in his Book of the Sunnah: We were told by Fadl ibn