Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

53 — THIRD VOLUME, 44th LETTER
This letter, written to Nûr ’Abdurrahmân, Mir Muhammad
Nu’mân’s son, responds to people who deny the fact that Allâhu
ta’âlâ will be seen in Paradise:
Bism-Illâh-ir-Rahmân-ir-Rahîm. People who deny the fact that
Allâhu ta’âlâ will be seen, and those who say that Allâhu ta’âlâ
cannot be seen, strive to press their argument with the syllogism
that “Something seen must be opposite the one that sees it. Allâhu
ta’âlâ cannot be opposite anything. For, He is without direction.
Being with direction means having a limit, an end, a surrounding.
And these, in their turn, would be defects, faults for Allâhu ta’âlâ.
These defects cannot exist in Allâhu ta’âlâ.”
In response to them we say: Allâhu ta’âlâ’s power is so great
that, in this transient and weak worldly life, He has given two
senseless, motionless and empty nerves the power to see the things
opposite them. Cannot Allâhu ta’âlâ, the Almighty, who has given
the nerves this power, give the two nerves, which will be stronger
and everlasting in the next world the power to see without
direction things that are not opposite them or things that are in
every direction? For, He has endless power, and it is possible to
see or perceive Him in the next world. At some places and times
He has made it a condition of seeing that the two things will be
opposite each other and will be in a certain direction, while at
others He has given the power of seeing without this condition.
Since these two kinds of places are quite unlike each other, it is,
indeed, utterly unreasonable to say that the conditions necessary
in one are necessary in the other, too. It means to know creatures
to be only in this ’âlam-i mulk, which can be seen and measured,
and to deny the astounding beings in the ’âlam-i melekût. [1]
Question: If Allâhu ta’âlâ is seen, this means that He has to
have a surrounding and be comprehended through the eyes. And
this means that He has an end, a limit. These defects cannot exist
in Allâhu ta’âlâ.
Answer: It is possible for Allâhu ta’âlâ to be seen but He does
not have a surrounding and cannot be comprehended through the
eyes. The hundred and third âyat of An’âm Sûra purports: “The
eyes cannot comprehend Him. But He knows, comprehends the
eyes. He bestows and is omniscient.” Believers will see Allâhu
ta’âlâ in the Hereafter and will say that they have seen Him. They
[1] Please see the twenty-first chapter of the sixth fascicle of Endless Bliss.
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