What is the detailed refutation to those who say that seeing Allah is impossible and necessitates anthropomorphism, fragmentation, and corporealization?
Seeing Allah Almighty in the Hereafter is firmly established by the Qur'an, the , and scholarly consensus, as indicated by His saying: "Some faces, that Day, will be radiant, looking at their Lord," and the Prophet's (peace be upon him) saying: "Indeed, you will see your Lord as you see this moon." Scholars have unanimously agreed upon this.
Those who deny the vision claim that affirming it necessitates anthropomorphism and corporealization, but this is false. The People of the Sunnah believe that Allah Almighty resembles nothing of His creation, and He is the Exalted, the Most High, seen by the eyes of the believers. Vision does not necessitate anthropomorphism or corporealization, for Allah is described with transcendence and above-ness, and this does not necessitate corporealization or anthropomorphism.
Vision necessitates direction. Whoever says He is seen without direction should reconsider his intellect. The premise that whatever is not in something existing cannot be seen is false.
The summary is to believe in what has come in the Qur'an and Sunnah, and that the narrations about the vision are mutawatir (massively transmitted). Whoever denies this has denied a great fundamental principle of the religion.
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