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Mystical Analysis of the Manifestation Verse … K.F. Mustafa et al / (21
the Divine Words, and this is not the Almighty to see him.
possible for any speech other (Ibn Arabi, 2001, Vol. 1: 240)
than God’s Speech. It must be When God Almighty spoke
mentioned here that although to Moses without hijab or though
the appointment was for all, angel, Moses felt longing and
Moses and his people, but had the desire to see God,
hearing the words of God and otherwise he did not dare to
receiving the message belongs ask for the vision of God. In
only to Prophet Moses that is other words, after being completely
related to his spiritual journey a hearing and understanding
and capability which differs for the Divine Speech, he longed
from and higher than his people. to see the Speaker Himself.
Therefore, in the verse of the
manifestation the Lord says, 2. The Difference between
“his Lord spoke to Moses” the Speech and Vision
(Quran, 7: 143) and not that Stations
his Lord spoke to them. Since prayers and speaking to
(Kashani, 2001: 280) God are only words without
vision and veil (Hijab) is
Reason for Requesting the Vision associated with it, Allah says:
There are reasons behind why “To no mortal does God
Moses wanted to see the Almighty: speak but through revelation,
1. The Prophet Moses’s from behind a curtain,
Longing to See the Almighty or by sending a Messenger
After reaching this station of who reveals, by His
being the conversor of God, permission whatever He
Moses' desire to vision Allah pleases. He is the Most
became too much, so he asked
