About seeing Allah

 Masruq said: I was sitting learning on a cushion in (the house of) Aisha when she said, ´´O Abu ´Aishah, there are three claims,and he who claims one of them, would have forged a gross lieagainst Allah.´´

I asked, ´´What are they?´´ She said, ´´He who claims that Muhammad salla alayhi wa sallam saw his Rubb, he would have forged a gross lie against Allah.´´

I was reclining then I sat up and said, ´´O Mother of the believers, slow down and do not rush. Has not Allah said: ´And truly he saw him in the clear horizon,´ (81-23) and ´indeed he saw him in another descent,´ (53-13)?´´ She said, ´´I am the first of this Ummah who asked the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam about it, and he said: ´Verily, that was Jibril. I have never seen him inhis original form in which he was created except on those two occasions; I saw him descending from heaven and filling (the space) fromthe sky to the earth with the reatness of his size.´´´

She said, ´´Have you not heard that Allah said: ´No vision, and He is Subtle, and All-Aware,´ (6:103)?´´She further said: ´´Have you not heard that Allah says: ´And it is not for a human that Allah should speak to him except by Revelation, or from behind a veil, or that He sends a messenger (angel), so that he reveals whatsoever He wills by His leave. Verily, He is the Supreme, the Wise.´

(43:51).´´

She said; ´´He who claims that the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam concealedanything from the Book of Allah, he would have forged a gross lieagainst Allah. Allah says: O Messenger! Deliver that which has been sent down from your Rubb, and if you do not, then you have not delivered His Message.´´ (5:67).´´ She said, ´´He who claims that he can tell what will happen tomorrow, he would have forged a gross lie against Allah.

And Allah says: ´Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the Unseen except Allah.´ (27:65)

And Dawood added to his version of this Hadith: She said: ´´Had Muhammad salla alayhi wa sallam concealed athing from what has been sent down to him, he would have concealed this Verse:

´And (remember) when you said to him whom Allah has graced (by guiding him to Islam) and whom you have done favor: Keepyour wife to yourself, and fear Allah; and you hide in yourself (what Allah has already made knownto you that He will give her to you in marriage) that which Allah will make public and you fear people whereas it is Allah Whom you should fear.´ (33:37)

85. Abu Musa narrated. The Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallamspoke to us and told ud five things. He said: ´´Verily, Allah the Exalted does not sleep, and it does not befit Him to sleep. He lowers the Scale and lifts it. The deeds in the night are taken up to Him before the deeds of the day, and the deeds of the day before the deeds of the night. His veil is Light. (In another version: Conutenance would consume His creation so fear as His Sight reches.´´

86. Abu Hurairah narrated: Some people said to the Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam, ´´O Messenger of Allah, shall we see our Rubb on the Day of Rresurrection?´´ The Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam said, ´´Do you have any trouble seeing the moon on the night when it is full?´´ They said, ´´No, O Messenger of Allah.´´ He further said, ´´Do you have any trouble seeing the sun in a clear sky?´´ They said, ´´No!´´ He said, ´´Verily, you will see Him in the same way.´´

´´Allah will gather people on the Day of Reusrrection and will say: ´Let every people follow what they used to worship. Let those who used to worship the sun follow the sun, and those who worshipped the moon follow the moon, and those who sorshipped the Taghut (false deities) follow the Taghut.´ This Ummah (of Islam) alone will remain with their hypocrites. 

Allah will then come to them in a form other than the form which they recognize, and will say: ´I am your Rubb.´

They will say: ´We take refuge with Allah from you. We will stay here until our Rubb comes to us.´´ Then Allah, the Exalted, will come to them in the form that they recognise and say: ´I am your Rubb.´ They will say: ´You are our Rubb.´ And they will follow him.´´

´´A brdge will be set over Hell; and I and my Ummah will be the first to cross it; and none but the Messengers will speak on that Day, and the supplication of the Messengers on that Day will be: ´O Allah! grant safety, grant safety.´ In Hell, there are long hooks like the throns of Sa´dan plant?´´ They replied, ´´Yes, O Messenger of Allah.´´ He said, ´´Verily, it is like the throns of Sa´dan, but no one knows what their size in except Allah.

They snatch people according to theirdeeds. Some of them will escape for their (good) deeds, and some will have their flesh cut up till they make it to safety.´´

´´When Allah finishes judging between His slaves, and warnts to take out of Fire whoever He wants out of hell. He will command the angels to bring out those who had not associated anything with Allah; to whom Allah wrants to show mercy among those who say: La ilaha illallah (i.e., there is no true God but Allah). They (angels) recognise them in Fire by the marks of prostration, for Hell-fire consumes everything of man except the marks of prostration.

Allah has forbidden Fire to consume the marks of prostration. They will be taken out of Fire after being burn out, and the Water of Life would be poured on them, and they will grow out as seed sprouts by the side of the waterway. When Allah finishes judging His slaves; there will be left a man facing Fire, and he is the lst to enter Jannah.

He will say ´O my Rubb!

Turn my face away from Fire, for its heat hurts me and its blaze scorched me.´ He will then supplicate Allah as long as Allah wishes. Then Allah will say: ´Would you ask for more than that if I grant your wish?´ He would say: ´I would not ask You more than this,´ and he would give his Rubb covenants and promises as Allah wishes, and so He would turn his face away from Fire.´´

´´When he faces Jannah and sees it, he will remain silent as long as Allah wishes him to. then he will say: ´O my Rubb! Bring me closer to the gate of theJannah.´

Allah will say to him: ´Did you not give covenants and promises that you would not ask for anything besides what I had given you. Woe to you!O son of Adam, how treacherous you are!´ He will say: ´O my Rubb! and continues supplicating to Allah until He says to him:

´If I grant you that perhaps you will ask for more.´ He will reply: ´No, by Your Greatness,´ and he will give his Rubb promises and convenants as Allah has wishes. He then bring him to the gate of Jannah.´

´´When he stands at the gate of Jannah, it becomes open before him, and he sees the goodness and the joy in it. He remains quiet as long as Allahwants him. He then says: ´O my Rubb, admit me to Jannah.´

Allah says:

´Have you not given convenants and promises that you would not ask for anything more than what I granted you? Woe to you! son of Adam, how treacherous you are!´ and he would say: ´O my Rubb! I do not wish to be the most wretched of your creatures.´ He continues invoking Allah until Allah laughs. When Allah laughs at him, He says: ´Enter the Jannah.´

When he enters it, Allah says: ´Make wishes.´

He asks his Rubb and wishes until allah reminds him of such and such (things).When his wishes are exhausted Allah says: ´That is for you and the like of it too.´´´

´Ata´ bin Yazid said: Abu Sa´id Al-Khudri was with Abu Hurairah and he did not reject anything formthe Hadith narrated by him, until but when Abu Hurayriah said that which Allah said to the man: ´and the like of it too,´ Abu Sa´id said: ´and ten times like of it too,´ O Abu Hurairah´´ Abu Hurairah said: ´´I do not remember except the words: ´That is for you and the like of it too.´´´

Abu Sa´id said: ´´I hear witness that I memorized fromthe Messenger of Allah salla alayhi wa sallam his words: ´That is for you and ten times like of it too.´´´ Abu Hurairah said: ´´That man will be the last to enter Jannah.´´