A tradition on page 117 of Saduq’s Tawhid finds Abu Basīr asking Imam Sadiq (a) the following question: “Please tell me, can the believers see Allah on the Day of Judgment?”. Imam Sadiq (a) gave a positive response and said the following in explanation: “Do you not see God right now?” What is the meaning of this last part of the tradition? Does this tradition mean that Imam Sadiq (a) enabled Abu Basīr to somehow see God or was he able to see God from before?

There is no way to see God for He is all encompassing and cannot be encompassed. Nonetheless, in a manifestational sense, He can be seen in every single being, as the Quran has mentioned the following in this regard: “To whichever direction you turn, there is the face of Allah”. Therefore, seeing Him and His cognition is possible in such sense. As a matter of fact, all people possess this comprehension of Him, but it is only the elite who know what they are comprehending and seeing, unlike the rest. Based on this, in regard to this hadith, what took place for Abu Basir was that he was given attention to what he was seeing but not comprehending, and from then on, he gained cognition of it. .

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