أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ...

أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ ذَاكَرْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) فِيمَا يَرْوُونَ مِنَ الرُّؤْيَةِ فَقَالَ الشَّمْسُ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ جُزْءاً مِنْ نُورِ الْكُرْسِيِّ وَ الْكُرْسِيُّ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ جُزْءاً مِنْ نُورِ الْعَرْشِ وَ الْعَرْشُ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ جُزْءاً مِنْ نُورِ الْحِجَابِ وَ الْحِجَابُ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ جُزْءاً مِنْ نُورِ السِّتْرِ فَإِنْ كَانُوا صَادِقِينَ فَلْيَمْلَئُوا أَعْيُنَهُمْ مِنَ الشَّمْسِ لَيْسَ دُونَهَا سَحَابٌ Ahmad Bin Idrees, from Muhammad Bin Abdul Jabbar, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Aasim Bin Humeyd, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws having said: ‘I discussed with Abu Abdullah -asws regarding what they (reporters) are reporting of the sighting.

So he -asws said: ‘The sun is a one part from the seventy of the light of the Chair (الْكُرْسِيِّ), and the Chair (الْكُرْسِيِّ) is one part of seventy parts from the Light of the Throne (الْعَرْشِ), and the Throne (الْعَرْشِ ) is one part from seventy parts from the Light of the Veil, and the Veil is one part from the seventy part from the Light of the Curtain. So if they were truthful, so let them be filling their eyes from the sun where there is no cloud under it’.

[18] أحمد بن إسحاق قال: كتبت إلي أبي الحسن علي بن محمد عليهما السلام أسأله عن الرؤية وما فيه الخلق فكتب عليه السلام: لا تجوز الرؤية ما لم يكن بين الرائي والمرئي هواء ينفذه البصر، فمتى انقطع الهواء وعدم الضياء لم تصح الرؤية، وفي وجوب اتصال الضياء بين الرائي والمرئي وجوب الاشتباه – وتعالى الله عن الاشتباه – فثبت أنه لا تجوز عليه سبحانه الرؤية بالابصار لان الاسباب لابد من اتصالها بالمسببات Ahmad Bin Is’haq who said, ‘I wrote to Abu Al-Hassan Ali -asws Bin Muhammad -asws asking him -asws about the sighting (Allah -azwj ), and what the people are in.

So, he -asws wrote: ‘The sighting is not allowed for as long as between the seer and the seen there does not happen to be air implemented by the sight.

So, when the air is cut off, and the illumination is negated, the sighting is not correct, and among the necessities of the arrival of the illumination between the seer and the seen is the necessity of the resemblance – and Allah -azwj is Exalted from the resemblance – Thus it is proven that the sighting by the sights is not allowed upon Him -azwj , Glorious is He -azwj , because it is inevitable for the reasons to be connected with the causes’’.

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