How can the hadith of Jabir ibn Abdullah: "Allah never spoke to anyone except from behind a veil, but He spoke to your father directly" be reconciled with the noble verse: "And it is not for any human being that Allah should speak to him except by inspiration or from behind a veil"?
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Jaber's about Allah speaking directly to his father, meaning a face-to-face encounter without any veil, occurred in the realm of the (interim world). As for the verse, "And it is not for any human being that Allah should speak to him except by [divine] inspiration or from behind a veil," this addresses the methods of revelation in the worldly life. Allah the Almighty speaks to His prophets either by inspiration or from behind a veil, as He spoke to Moses. The verse speaks of this world, whereas Allah's speaking to Jaber's father was in the Barzakh.
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