Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - The Book of Divine Unity

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara - The Book of Divine Unity Chapter: Negation of any Possibility of Seeing or Imagining God الجعفري، عن أبي الحسن الرضا عليه السلا٠قال: سألته عن الله هل يوصف؟ فقال: أ٠ا تقرء القرآن؟ قلت: بلى قال: أ٠ا تقرء قوله تعالى: لَّا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصَارُ وَهُوَ يُدْرِكُ الْأَبْصَارَ؟ قلت: بلى، قال: فتعرفون الابصار؟ قلت: بلى، قال: ٠اهي؟ قلت: أبصار العيون، فقال: إن أوها٠ن أبصار العيون فهو لا تدركه الاوها٠6.

[6/325] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad from Abi Hashim al-Ja’fari from Abi al-Hasan al-Ridha عليه السلاÙ. He (Abi Hashim) said: I asked him about Allah - can He be described? He said: Don’t you read the Qur’an? I said: Yes (I do). He said: Don’t you read His words the Elevated: “sights do not reach Him but He reaches the sights” (6:103)? I said: Yes (I do). He said: Do you know the sights (meant)? I said: Yes. He said: What are they?

I said: The sighting of the eyes. He said: The imaginings of the heart are greater than the sighting of the eyes - thus He is such that imaginations do not reach Him while He reaches the imaginations. عتبر - Shaykh Asif al-Mohseni (Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara)