How can a Muslim imagine God, knowing that He cannot be seen, and should he imagine Him in the form of a human or light?
Allah Almighty, "There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing," is transcendent above resembling His creation and cannot be encompassed by knowledge or imagined. A Muslim is not obligated to imagine Allah; rather, they must believe in His sublime attributes that befit His majesty. Allah is not seen in this world, but the believers will see Him in the Hereafter in the plains of resurrection and in Paradise, which is the greatest blessing for the people of Paradise. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, did not see his Lord with the eyes of his head, but rather he saw a light. A Muslim must come to know Allah through His names and attributes that He revealed in His Book and in the Sunnah of His Messenger, and forsake the whispers of Satan.
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