Islam Tees

Covered in this lesson:

Question 133 – What is the evidence that the believers will see their Lord in the abode of the Hereafter? – and its answer.

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Due to the great importance of this issue of Islamic creed, the following notes have been provided:

– ar-Ru’yah (seeing Allāh in the Hereafter) is from the great and mighty affairs of Islamic belief. It is a symbol of Islamic belief, of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama’āh.

– Ru’yah is mutawātir, has come by way of large scale transmission. Imām Ibn Qayyim (رحمه الله) mentions roughly 30 companions have narrated these hadiths.

– Shaykh Hāfidh Al-Hakamī (رحمه الله) mentions several ayāt as evidence of Ru’yah, among them:

“Some faces that Day shall be Nadirah (shining and radiant). Looking at their Lord (Allah)” [Surah Al-Qiyamah (75):22-23].

For them who have done good is the best [reward] and extra [Surah Yunus (10):26]

Nay! Surely, they (evil-doers) will be veiled from seeing their Lord that Day. [Surah Al-Mutaffifin (83):15]

– Also ahadīth as evidence such as:

Hadith in Bukharī: “…You will see your Lord (on the Day of Resurrection) as you see this moon..”
Note: comparison is not in the thing being seen but the way or manner of it being seen.

Hadith in Mishkat al-Masabih: “…The veil will then be removed and they (inhabitants of Paradise) will not get anything more better/dearer than looking at their Lord…”

– The difference between Nādirah and Nādhirah mentioned in [75:22-23]. A refutation of the claim of the Jahmiyyah who assert Nādhirah means waiting for Allāh to enter them into Paradise. The context of the verse doesn’t support this understanding/meaning as the preposition إلى  is used.

– We reject the false claim that ‘if we leave them (texts) as they are, this is tashbīh or tajsīm’. The prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) is exonerated from anything that is tashbīh (or tajsīm).

– If don’t believe in Ru’yah, it is a weakening of Eemān, undermining the symbols of Islām. What is the believer motivated by then?

– Jahmiyyah are like highway robbers. Highway robbers steal peoples’ wealth but Jahmiyyah rob people of their Eemān.

– Seeing Allāh in the Hereafter is the greatest bliss/pleasure. In this there is honour, rectification of the heart. The believer is seeing His beloved, the extremity of beauty.

– Poetry from Imām Ibn Qayyim (رحمه الله) regarding the creation is from the traces of His beauty and clarification that this is different to the belief of Wahdatul-Wujūd (Unity of Existence), that of the belief that there is no creator or created, there is only one wujūd (existence). This is greater kufr than that of the Yahūd and Nasārah.

– It is not possible for us encompass Allāh with the vision just like we cannot encompass Allāh’s knowledge. However, we do have something of knowledge but can we encompass all of Allāh’s knowledge? No.

– We affirm and establish the Ru’yah without asking how it is. Don’t know reality of the veil either.

– The explanations and commentaries of Shaykhs Ahmad an-Najmī and Aal ash-Shaykh were returned to and used in the lesson.