7.13. DIFFERENT VIEWS ON SEEING THE LORD
One group, among them the Mu’tazilah and the Jahmiyyah, negated the belief that the believers would see their Lord. Others affirmed told us about, and this is the the vision (ru’yah) that the Prophet view of Ahl al-Sunnah iva al-Jamaah, while others like Dirar Ibn ‘Amr and different groups of rhetoric (kalam) theology who promote sup- porting Ahl al-Sunnah in this issue were of the view that the vision refers to increased awareness or knowledge(‘ilm) or to a sixth sense (kashf). Other views have been reported from them as well. Even though they affirm what the Mu’tazilah and Dirariyyah negate, their differences are really only about the wording. Their dispute with Ahl al-Sunnah, however, is about the meaning. This is why Bishr and others like him interpreted the issue of vision in a manner similar to one of the said views.
What we are saying here is that some of those who accepted the vision negated the chance of a believer actually enjoying the sight of his Lord on the basis that there is no correspondence between the originated (muhdath) and the Pre-Existent (qadim).Similar things were stated by Ustadh Abu al-Ma(ali al-Juwaym in al-Risalah al-Ni^amiyya and Abu al-Wafa’ Ibn ( AqIl in some of his writings.
It has been related that Ibn ‘AqIl once heard a man say (to Allah): ‘1 ask you the pleasure of looking at Your Face!’ Upon hearing this, he said: ‘Look at this! Suppose He had a face, but does he have a face that is pleasurable to look at?’ Abu al-Ma(‘ali also stated that Allah will create delight for them through something that He has created which is connected to the vision, but negated the chance of finding pleasure in the very vision itself. This issue, he said, is one of the ambiguous secrets of divine unity.
By Shaykhu’l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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