معرفت کلامی

Referring to verse ("O my Lord! Show (Thyself) to me, that I may look upon thee.") (A'raf: 143) as a proof of the possibility of seeing God is one of the most important arguments on which those who believe in the visibility of God have relied. They hold that this verse indicates that prophet Moses asked to see God and this request shows the possibility of seeing God. In his works, Seyyed Morteza Alam al-Huda (436 AH) has mentioned several answers rejecting this argument. He has mainly emphasized on two of these answers: 1. seeing God was not Prophet Moses’s request, but his people’s request;2. if this were Prophet Moses’s request, he asked God to see the signs that require the necessary knowledge of God. Between these two answers, Alam al-Huda preferred the first one and finally considered the second interpretation invalid. It seems that the aspects that he mentioned as his preferences of the first answer and what he considered as proving the invalidity of the second interpretation are controversial. In fact, the second answer is preferable to the first one, and the first answer is basically unacceptable