LessonsConnecting the Creed Texts: Principles, Evidence and Sound InferenceQuiz

وَالرُّؤْيَةُ حَقٌّ لِأَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ بِغَيْرِ إِحَاطَةٍ وَلَا كَيْفِيَّةٍ
The people of Paradise will truly see Allah, without encompassing Him or determining a modality.

لَا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ
Vision does not encompass Him, while He encompasses all vision. (6:103)

How the passages fit: Belief in the vision of Allah by the people of Paradise is affirmed alongside the denial that sight can encompass Him. Seeing and comprehensive grasp are not identical.

Application: The reality of vision is accepted without defining its manner, boundary, direction or creaturely form. The two statements preserve both affirmation and transcendence.

Limit of inference: “Vision does not encompass Him” does not amount to an absolute denial of vision.

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Vision of Allah and denial of encompassing

Connecting the Creed Texts: Principles, Evidence and Sound Inference

وَالرُّؤْيَةُ حَقٌّ لِأَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ بِغَيْرِ إِحَاطَةٍ وَلَا كَيْفِيَّةٍ
The people of Paradise will truly see Allah, without encompassing Him or determining a modality.

لَا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ
Vision does not encompass Him, while He encompasses all vision. (6:103)

How the passages fit: Belief in the vision of Allah by the people of Paradise is affirmed alongside the denial that sight can encompass Him. Seeing and comprehensive grasp are not identical.

Application: The reality of vision is accepted without defining its manner, boundary, direction or creaturely form. The two statements preserve both affirmation and transcendence.

Limit of inference: “Vision does not encompass Him” does not amount to an absolute denial of vision.