The greatest veils are two veils, a moral veil, which is ignorance, and a sensory veil, which is you over yourself. As for the greatest moral veil,

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said when he was captured in a tree in which there was a bird’s nest, so Gabriel sat in the one den and the Messenger of God sat. God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, in the end, when they reached the lowest heaven, something like a fluttering pearl and a ruby hung down to them, and that was a kind of manifestation of the truth. He, peace be upon him, said: As for Gabriel, he fainted because he knew what had been revealed to him. As for the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, he remained as he was because he did not know what it was. He had no authority over him, so when Gabriel told him when he woke up that it was the truth, he said, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, “At that time, I learned of his superiority.”

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