The sixteenth point is that Allah Most High has said:

“It is not for any human being that Allah should speak to him except by revelation or from behind a veil.” [al-Shūrā 51]

It is known that this speaking is like His speaking to Moses, as stated in the hadith cited earlier: “You are Moses, to whom Allah spoke from behind a veil, without placing between you and Himself any messenger from His creation.” This manner of speaking is of a higher rank than His speaking through revelation or by sending a messenger, by the consensus of the Muslims, as indicated by the Book and the Sunnah.

If the veil means that seeing Him is not created, this would mean that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, spoke to Moses without Moses seeing Him. Yet it is known that the absence of such vision is common to all these modes, and is not something that gives Moses any distinction. And if it did not