And you learn from that that God has servants for whom He hastened seeing Him in this world before the Hereafter, and God has servants who will have the last of that, and God has servants who do not see Him except with their eyes in the Hereafter, and descend from the rank of these in vision, and God has servants who see Him in this world with the eyes of their faith and in the Hereafter in the Barzakh with the eyes of their imagination, wakefulness, sleep, and death. Hence, whoever among the people of God said that knowledge is a veil, they want the science of intellectual consideration, that is, the knowledge that the wise person has benefited from his consideration of God. This is the meaning of

His saying, “I turned his gaze away from me, so he who saw me saw me only through me, and he who saw me with his sight saw nothing but me.” Himself, for I am manifested to Him in His form.

So the men of God knew God through the information of God Almighty, so He was th