His statement, “This may describe the one seeing, as when someone says, ‘I entered the ruler’s presence in the finest state,’ meaning, ‘I myself was in the finest state,’” is false for several reasons.

First, the wording of the most complete version is:

“I rose during the night, performed ablution, and prayed as much as was decreed for me. Then I grew drowsy in my place of prayer until I fell into a deep sleep. Then I saw my Lord in the most beautiful form. He said, ‘O Muhammad!’ I replied, ‘At Your service, my Lord.’ He asked, ‘What is the Highest Assembly disputing about?’”

His words, “Then I saw my Lord in the most beautiful form,” explicitly state that it was his Lord who was in the most beautiful form.

Second, another wording states, “My Lord came to me last night in the most beautiful form.”

Third, when a dreamer reports that he saw someone else in the most beautiful form, his purpose is not to describe his own appearance.

Fourth, when someone says, “I saw so-and-so in the most beautiful form,” the qualifying phrase refers to the one seen, not to the one seeing, just as when someone says, “I saw so-and-so