Sixth: He said, “Then He removes the veil, and they look upon Him,” thus placing their looking upon Him after the removal of the veil. Yet they hold that the veil is the non-creation of vision, or that its opposite is the creation of vision. The removal of that absence would therefore be vision itself, not something that follows the veil.

Seventh: He said, “His veil is light—or fire. Were He to remove it, the splendour of His Face would burn whatever His sight reaches of His creation.” If the veil were the non-creation of vision, removing it—which would mean creating vision in the servant—would not burn anything. For when the believers see their Lord on the plains of Resurrection, then see Him in Paradise time after time, nothing is burned.

Eighth: The two Sahīh collections contain the statement, “Nothing stands between the people and their looking upon their Lord except the cloak of majesty upon His Face, in the Garden of Eden.” He thus affirmed the cloak of majesty upon His Face. Yet according to these people, nothing stands between them and