In ordinary creaturely vision, direction, distance and spatial confrontation often obtain between observer and object. A familiar Muʿtazilī objection argues that divine vision would entail God’s place, direction and confrontation, contrary to transcendence.
The Sunni reply refuses to turn a worldly habit of perception into the necessary rational definition of seeing. Affirming vision in the Hereafter does not entail asserting any bodily mechanism whose nature has not been specified by revelation. The manner is not made a physical condition of the doctrine.