His creation,’ they mean that the light of His Face burns whatever of His creation it reaches.” He also cited Tha‘lab’s statement. This accords with the meaning of the hadith, which states that His veil is fire or light, and that, were He to remove that veil, the radiance of His Face—veiled by light or fire—would burn everything His sight encompasses of His creation. He said: “The light of His radiance burns everything His sight encompasses of His creation.” As mentioned earlier, whenever Abū ‘Ubaydah ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Mas‘ūd narrated this hadith from Abū Mūsā, he would recite:

“Blessed is whoever is in the fire and whoever is around it. Glory be to Allah, Lord of all worlds.” (8)
[al-Naml 8]

The thirty-sixth point: As mentioned earlier, the hadith of ‘Adī ibn Hātim contains the Prophet’s words: “There is not one of you whose Lord will not speak to him, with no veil between him and Him, and no interpreter to interpret for him.” This implies that He could have a veil concealing Him, just as He could have an interpreter conveying His speech. The Quran explicitly states that Allah may speak from behind a veil. Yet according to the author of al-Ta’sīs and those like him, neither a barrier nor an interpreter can stand between Him and His servants, since