Hadith 76

‘Al Tawheed’ – Al Daqaq, from Al Kulayni, from Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Ibn Isa, from Ali Ibn Sayf, from Muhammad Bin Ubeysa who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza-asws about the sighting (Allah-azwj) and what is being reported by the general Muslims and the special ones (Shias), and I asked him-asws to explain that for me. He-asws wrote by his-asws handwriting: ‘The entirety of them have agreed, there being no forbiddance between them that the recognition from the aspect of the sighting is necessary. When it is allowed that Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic can be seen with the eyes, the necessary recognition would occur, then that recognition would not be empty from either being Eman or it isn’t Eman. If that recognition from the aspect of the sighting was belief, then the recognition which is in the house of the world from an aspect of the acquisition isn’t Eman, because it is its opposite. Then no one in the world would be a Momin, because they did not see Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic. And if that recognition which is from an aspect of the sighting, would not happen to be Eman, (then) this recognition which is from an aspect of the acquisition would not be empty from either declining or nor declining in the Hereafter. Thus, this is evidence upon that Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic cannot be seen by the eyes, when the eye leads to what we-asws described’’. [78]