Why Can’t We See God?

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Moses was asked the same question.Introduction.

The first verse repeats the sayings of the polytheists. They thought that God had a body and He could be observed and seen. It is said, “Those who do not wish to meet Us say, “Why has no angel been sent to us, nor have we seen our Lord?”

The first demanded to see the angel who brought the revelations and then demanded to see God as if the non-felt and non-physical God was not acceptable to them. We learn that these words came from the mouths of the leaders of polytheism who were aware of the truth but wanted to keep the general populace ignorant and therefore kept every thing under the banner of senses and observance. They talked in this way with the messenger thinking that they would defeat him. Qura’n says, they do not believe on the Judgment Day and are not aware of any accountability.

In the end the verse says, “Indeed they think too highly of themselves, and they have gone to great excesses.” The commentators after discussing this verse have said that the verse 27 of this Surah too is about leaders of the Quraysh who practiced idolatry

From the discussion of this verse the thing that is clear is that the cause of this great demand was their pride and their rebellion which had animosity. This is why they disbelieved the truth. This is not limited only to the polytheist Arabs, even pride and rebellious specialists in modern sciences think that they should see and feel everything. Nothing is acceptable to them if it is not discerned through the experience of senses and therefore, they call aloud and say that they will not believe in God until they see Him. And so the polytheists of yesteryears and also of today have confined themselves to materialism though there are other factors besides senses and matter and they can be seen through the heart only. God is an entity who cannot be found in the senses but in the hearts.

 

Moses was asked the same question.Introduction.
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