pertains to creation, since it is they who are veiled from Him by a veil He creates within them: the absence of visual perception. They argue that whatever is screened by a veil must have a veil larger than itself, and must be finite, spatially aligned with it, and susceptible to physical contact. An instance of this is His statement, exalted is He:

“No indeed! On that Day they will be veiled from their Lord.”
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[al-Mutaffifīn 15]

Thus He made the disbelievers veiled from seeing Him because of the veil He created within them. This veil He created within them is the absence of visual perception. They said that another instance of this is that the veil was not attributed to Allah, but was mentioned without qualification. This is borne out by the report that Alī passed by a butcher who was saying, “No, by Him who has veiled Himself