FACE OF ALLAH (SWT)

Face of ALLAH (SWT)

You shall see your lord.

Just as you see this full moon

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) said:
"Do you crowd one another in order to see the moon on the night of a full moon? Do you crowd one another in order to see the sun?" 
They said: "No." He said: "So verily, you shall see your Lord as you see the moon on the night of a full moon, you shall not crowd one another to see Him."

Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
English reference: Vol. 4, Book 12, Hadith 2554
Arabic reference: Book 38, Hadith 2752

The comparison is to the people looking at the moon and the people looking at ALLAH.
You will see your lord, just as you see this full moon.
No one will be fighting, No one will be arguing to see it.

Everyone will be able to see ALLAH (SWT).

Allah's Messenger Muhammad (Peace be upon him) came out to us on the night of the full moon and said, "You will see your Lord on the Day of Resurrection as you see this (full moon) and you will have no difficulty in seeing Him."

Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 7436
In-book reference: Book 97, Hadith 63
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Vol. 9, Book 93, Hadith 531

The greatest blessing of Jannah (Paradise) is not Jannah.
The greatest blessing of Jannah is not the things inside of Jannah.
Rather the greatest Blessing of Jannah is something even more than Jannah itself…

ALLAH says in the Quran:

لِّلَّذِينَ أَحْسَنُوا الْحُسْنَىٰ وَزِيَادَةٌ ۖ وَلَا يَرْهَقُ وُجُوهَهُمْ قَتَرٌ وَلَا ذِلَّةٌ ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ

For them who have done good is the best [reward] and extra. No darkness will cover their faces, nor humiliation. [Quran 10:26]

Those who do good. They shall get Al-Husna which is the name of Jannah (Paradise). They Shall get Jannah and they will get more than paradise.

What could possibly be more than Jannah (Paradise)?

Our Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) explained this verse, He (Peace be upon him) made a Tafseel of this verse.
And He (Peace be upon him) said, when the people of Jannah have entered Jannah...

ALLAH (SWT) WILL ASK THEM: 

Oh My Servants... Are you Happy?

The People of Jannah will say, Yes Oh ALLAH we are.


ALLAH (SWT) WILL SAY:

Oh My Servants, is there anything more that you want?

People of Jannah will say: And what could we want more than this Oh ALLAH.

Have you not caused us to enter this paradise?
What more could we want?
Then... 
The Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: 

ALLAH (SWT) will lift the veil

(فَيُكْشَفُ الْحِجَابُ)

And they will look at his face.

He (Peace be upon him) said: "When the inhabitants of Paradise have entered Paradise a caller will call out: 'Indeed there remains for you a promise with Allah, and He wants to reward you with it.
‘They will say: 'Have your faces not been made bright, have we not been saved from the Fire, and have we not been admitted into Paradise?'" He said: "So the Veil will be lifted."
He said: "By Allah! Nothing given to them [by Allah] will be more beloved to them than looking at Him."

Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
English reference: Vol. 1, Book 44, Hadith 3105
Arabic reference : Book 47, Hadith 3388

And they will not be given anything better, and more noble than the looking at his face. And this is the Ziyadah that the Quran talks about.

This is what the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: This is the thing that is more than Paradise.

ALLAH (SWT) says in the Quran:

وَمَا تُنفِقُونَ إِلَّا ابْتِغَاءَ وَجْهِ اللَّهِ ۚ

Whatever of good ye give benefits your own souls, and ye shall only do so seeking the "Face" of Allah. [Quran 2:272]

You’re only spending your money to see the face of ALLAH.

You're only spending your money Fisabilillah to see the face of ALLAH.

ALLAH says:

You're being good to your relatives, in order to see the face of ALLAH.

ALLAH says: 

You're being Patient in order to see ALLAH (SWT).

And the Quran tell us that when we see the FACE OF ALLAH (SWT), our face will become bright and shining.

We all know the verse:

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاضِرَةٌ 

Some faces that Day shall be Nadirah (shining and radiant).

إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ 

Looking at their Lord (Allah); [Quran 75:22-23]

On that day, Faces will be shining bright, why? 

Because they will be looking at their lord.

And this shows us that looking at the face of ALLAH, is the greatest blessing given to us. 

And that face has been described as:

ذوالجلال والاکرام

(The Lord of Majesty and Bounty)

(DHUL JALALI WAL IKRAM)

وَيَبْقَىٰ وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلَالِ وَالْإِكْرَامِ

And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will abide forever. 

[Quran 55:27]

The face has been described as a face of Jalal.

Jalal means Magnificence
Jalal means Honor and Ikram means Nobility.

The face of ALLAH is a face of Honor and a face of Nobility... why?

Because, anybody who sees that face, has been Honoured beyond anyone else.
Anyone who sees that face, has been given an Honor and a Nobility, that no one else will possess. 

And that face of ALLAH we will not see it in this world.

Mosa (Peace be upon him) asked to see, but ALLAH said, you don't have the Power, The Capability. That is something only in the next life.

And a famous Hadith of ABU DHARR AL GHIFARI, after the Night of Journey when the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) went up, and went to a place Higher than Jibreel.
Jibreel took him up and Jibreel said, I cannot go any more... Now you have to go on your own. I'm not allowed beyond this point.

So the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) went Higher than any created being as ever been!

Then when he came back down, ABU DHARR AL GHIFARI asked him:

يا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم هَلْ رَأَيْتَ رَبَّكَ

Oh Messenger of ALLAH, did you see your Lord?
And 

Our Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) replied:

(نُورٌ أَنَّى أَرَاهُ) 

There was light everywhere! How could I see him??!

What light is he talking about?
What is this light?

Our Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) explained in another Hadith, He (Peace be upon him) clarified in another Hadith.
And this Hadith is reported by ABU HURAIRAH in Sahih Muslim as well.


And in it, He said:

ALLAH AZ AWA JAL has taken a Hijaab. 

(حِجَابُهُ النُّورُ) 

Hijaab of Light

ALLAH's Hijaab is light.

ALLAH AZA WA JAL has taken a Hijaab by Hijaab we mean, a covering.

ALLAH has taken a Hijaab.

What is the Hijaab?

You see for us, the Hijaab covers the beauty, and it envelops the beauty.

For ALLAH (SWT) the Hijaab it self is beauty. And what it's covered is beyond Imagination.
What is covers is beyond what the mind can comprehend.


So our Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) said: ALLAH's Hijaab is light.

لَوْ كَشَفَهَا

If he were to lift that Hijaab.

لأَحْرَقَتْ سُبُحَاتُ وَجْهِهِ مَا انْتَهَى إِلَيْهِ بَصَرُهُ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ

The Rays of Light that come from ALLAH's Face would destroy everything that it sees.


The Beauty, The Radiance of ALLAH (SWT) is so Powerful, that the creation cannot bear to see it!

So, when the creation cannot bear to see it!

Out of Mercy for the creation, ALLAH has veiled himself from us in this world.
And what is his veil, His veil itself is LIGHT.

It was narrated that Abu Musa said:
"The Messenger of Allah said: 'Allah does not sleep, and it is not befitting that He should sleep. He lowers the Scales and raises them. His Veil is Light, and if He were to remove it, the glory of his Face would burn everything of His creation, as far as His gaze reaches.' " Then Abu 'Ubaidah recited the verse: 'Blessed is whosoever is in the fire, (i.e. the light of Allah) and whosoever is round about it! And Glorified is Allah, the Lord of all that exists."

Grade: Sahih (Darussalam)
English reference: Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 196
Arabic reference: Book 1, Hadith 201,

So when our Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) went up all the way on the Accession to the Heavens, He (Peace be upon him) saw the Veil of ALLAH

So when ABU DHARR ASKED HIM, What did you see?

Did you see ALLAH?

He (Peace be upon him) said: 

There was the LIGHT!