Waaleikum Salaam,
Thanks a lot Br. Hamzeh for the input. The possibilities advanced sound plausible.
As a particular piece to be considered, I concur with your point here:
“I personally also ponder at times that not seeing The Most Glorious is such a great sign as this world is not deserving of His Great Presence. However with all the miracles and signs around us, God's presence is felt by way of faith and emotions, Alhamdulila.”
Dear Br. Student,
Firstly, may I kindly include an accidental omission in my above shared opinion, as captured in the course of this response below. The citation should have been 75:22-23.
Given that Br. Hamzeh has tried to respond to your queries above, I won’t add something into that as I personally feel that it suffices. On a different note, your question below would also have been well addressed by the following verse as cited by Br. Hamzeh just before the quote.
“Has Quran explicitly denied vision in this world?”Vision perceives Him not, but He perceives [all] vision; and He is the Subtle, the Acquainted.(Qur’an, Al-An’am 6:103)
About your statement,
“If we can see Him in the hereafter (as you seems to incline and align with Christianity and Sunni belief on the subject)...” I disagree with your bracketed premise, and in particular, what I have put into bold. That’s an interpolation of my humble perspective as shared above. Moreover, the Sunni belief doesn’t necessarily equate to the Christianity as you may agree. While the common Sunni viewpoint is that of seeing Allah in Paradise, as far as this subject is concerned, and allegedly occasioned to be on every Friday of the Days of Hereafter [1], from the popular viewpoint of mainstream Christianity, God already did manifest as Jesus, the God incarnate, and that nothing of His Sovereignty limits Him to do so or do anything if He so wills, at
any point in time.
Nonetheless, as similarly shared by Br. Hamzeh, my take on the subject is just in an effort to reconcile the various Qur’anic verses that suggest such a possibility of “seeing” Allah by believers in Jannah. To reiterate my point in this, I again put it as follows:
“Nevertheless, with the subject of final re-creation of creatures by Allah as in 75:3 and 21:4 or 29:20 and 34:7 among other references, it sounds plausible that 75:22-23 supporting it with 83:18-24 and against 83:15-16 is sometimes used to support the idea that believers shall see Allah in Paradise.”After all, I shared the above with a request for the opinions of others on the same, in an effort to stay with the Qur'anic take on the same.
You kindly share:
“I'm sure you'll not disagree there's no Hasana better and pleasing than the joy of seeing our unsurpassingly Beautiful and unimaginable Creator!”Albeit agreeing with you that the favor of “seeing” Allah by believers could immensely be a
great privilege amongst believers in Paradise, as in 54:54-55 and 75:22-23, I can’t unequivocally surmise from the Qur’anic verses that there is
no better reward than that, or mention of a
particular greatest reward. After all, 5:119 and 9:72, among other verses, also both mention of great victory.
Hope that clarifies my point.
Anyway thanks for sharing your views.
Regards,
Athman.
References:
[1]
https://islamqa.info/en/210252