their Lord, on that Day, will surely be veiled. (15) Then they will surely burn in Hellfire. (16)” [Al-Mutaffifīn 15–16]

Thus, He placed the veiling before entry into the Fire, which can only occur on the plain of Resurrection or before that. It is known that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has not created on the plain of Resurrection any actual bounty from which the disbelievers are veiled, for that plain is not a place of reward or punishment. Since no bliss exists there from which they could be barred, it follows that it is He Himself from whom they are veiled.

The twenty-eighth argument: His treatment of the second report—which he said is narrated in the well-known books from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: “Allah has seventy veils of light; were He to remove them, the splendors of His Face would burn everything His sight encompasses”—giving it that bizarre interpretation which the wording supports neither literally nor figuratively, is akin to what he did in his large work entitled al-Matālib al-ʿĀliya, in which he compiled discussions drawn from philosophers and speculative theologians. In it, he included a separate treatise explaining the Ascension, recounting it in a form unknown in any of the books of hadith and interpreting it in the manner of the Sabians