Originally Posted by
Black Man
Let's take a look at the words of the Prophet which confirm the orthodox belief that Allah will be seen by the righteous. The tradition is related of the Prophet answerreing a concern from among his companions on whether ornot they will see Allah in Paradise. The traditin goes:
"Some persons asked the Apostle of Allah: Shall we see our Lord on the day of the resurrection? the Apostle of Allah answered: Would you importune anyone with such a question regarding the moon in a night of full moon, or concerning the sun on a cloudless day? They asnwered: No. He said: In the same way you will see your Lord..."
Reported by Ahmad ibn Nasru'l-Khuza'i that teh Prophet said again, "Ye shall see your Lord in the day of judgement, as ye see the moon."
Al-Nawawi, author of Forty Hadith, says, "The postion of the PEOPLE OF THE SUNNAH is that seeing Allah is possible andnot absurd."
the people of the Sunnah are the original followers of the prophet who transmitted his teachings.
The verse that modern orthodox, those who were originally heterodox, quote in their attempt to make Allah immaterial being that is invisible is Surah 2:3 where Allah is referred to as Al-Ghaib. The muslim writers of today deceptively translate that word as "Unseen." However, that word does not mean "unseen" in arabic it means "absent" or "to withdraw ones presence from." ALLAH is not here described by the Quran as an invisible being, but as one who has made himself absent until the day of judgment at which time he will make his presence known again.
George F. Moor, in his History of Religion, "The commonidea of God was crudely anthropomorphic. Taking the words of the koran in their natural sense, men imagined God sitting upon a throne in heaven, a being with hands and feet, eyes and ears; a body, therefore, and some doctors of repute did not hesitate to say a body of flesh and blood."
In the polemic of Jahiz (772-872) against the Nabita, which is another name for the Hashwiyya, he says of them: "But the Nabita...insisted: He is a body and it ascribed form....to Him and declared anyone who believes in the beatific vision (seeing Allah in Paradise) without 'Tajsim' (acknowledging God has a body)...to be a heretic. Again most maintain that God's word is excellent and clear, evidence and proof...that if He wished to add to it, He could; and subtract from it, he could....The acts of disobedience of this community had never exceeded sin and error...until the Nabita and their followers, THE MASSES, appeared. Now the PREVAILING trend of the generation is Kufr, that is anthropomorphism an ddeterminism."
Hisham ibn Hakim said: "Allah has a body, defined, broad, high and long, of equal dimensions, radiating with light, of a broad measure in its three dimensions...."