" Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware."
آنکھیں اس کو نہیں پا سکتیں ہاں وہ خود آنکھوں تک پہنچتا ہے اور وہ بہت باریک بین اور ہمیشہ باخبر رہنے والا ہے۔
This verse seems to deepen our limited understanding of the unlimited Noor, His Noor. This verse uses the word الابصار which also means 'understanding' and 'vision' which means it is not in our capability that either with our eyes or our vision we comprehend the Supreme Being. It is only the limited understanding that He has himself given us that we may be able to understand. Though we can identify His existence but we can never totally comprehend.
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Quran Says He is the light of the heavens and earth. His prophets A.S. are like a prism who make manifest all shades of His Noor for the people, and the willing hearts in turn can color themselves.
We know Allah through all the attributes that He has taught us. I once asked a bunch of kids that after all why does Allah have so many names? I got a few stares in response initially though, but they could also guess that It was through them that we know Him.
If we ponder a little further we realize that even His attributes that we know are those which we can understand in our context, i.e. we are the ones who sin so we know Him as the one who forgives. Similarly we are the ones who fall ill so we know Him as the one who gives shifa. There could be countless other attributes that we cannot understand in our context. Even for the attributes we know are not fully lucid for us. Like we know Him as the Creator, but how many things of which sort has He created? , can we comprehend? No! We only know the things He has taught us. So that being a perfect example of Eyes not being able to reach Him but He reaches the eyes. In fact that is he reason His quest becomes all the more interesting. It is الغیب (hidden) in nature that derives all the research and our quest to know more.
Same is the case with our efforts to attain his nearness, we can only have intention & efforts at our end the rest depends on Him.
And so the verse ends beautifully saying that He is incomprehensible for us but He knows everything!
Looking forward to comments, corrections and suggestions.
