When Love Seeks a Glimpse of the Infinite – Seeing God
“Seeing God.” It’s one of the most human desires we carry: to see, to know, to be certain. We long to look beyond the veil of this world and glimpse the One who created it. The question quietly rises within us: Can I see You? This longing isn’t rebellion but it’s relationship. It’s the heart reaching toward the Infinite, seeing God.
Blog Summary:
- The Story of Hazrat Musa when he wanted to see God
- The Closest People to see God failed to see Him physically
- Direct Observation and Inferential Observation
- Observable and Non Observable
How we should see God? (Urdu/Hindi Video – Part 1 and 2)
When Musa Asked to See God
Imagine the scene.
Moses is on the mountain. It is quiet. It is powerful. It is a moment of closeness between a servant and his Lord. Musa speaks. He asks Allah if he can see Him.
Now think about this. Musa is not a random person. He is a prophet. He speaks to God. There is love. There is friendship. There is closeness. So you can almost imagine the conversation.
Musa asks with longing. Allah responds with wisdom.
Allah tells him that he cannot see Him directly. Then Allah says, look at the mountain. If the mountain stays in its place, then you will see Me.
“And when Musa came at the appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said: ‘My Lord, show Yourself to me that I may look at You.’
[Allah] said: ‘You will not see Me, but look at the mountain; if it remains in place, then you will see Me.’
But when his Lord manifested Himself to the mountain, He made it crumble to dust, and Musa fell unconscious…”1
The mountain shatters. And Musa falls unconscious.The message is simple. If a mountain cannot handle even a glimpse, how can human eyes handle the full reality? If a prophet like Musa could not see God with his naked eyes, then what about us?
The Closest People to see God
In every religion, there are people at the top.
In Islam, prophets.
In Christianity, people speak of the Father and divine revelation.
In Judaism, great prophets.
In Buddhism, masters.
These are the highest of the high. The closest to the Divine. The most pure. The most prepared. And even they were not seeing God like we see a tree or a chair. So when someone says, If I cannot see God, I will not believe, that is a weak argument.
It is like saying, I cannot see my thoughts, so I must not have any. Try telling that to your exam results.
Direct Observation and Inferential Observation
Now let us make something clear. There are two ways of knowing things.
The first is direct observation. You see it. You touch it. You hear it. That is simple.
The second is inferential observation. You do not see the thing itself. You see its effects. Then you use your mind.
This is how most of science works. You do not see gravity. You see an apple fall. You do not see air. You see trees moving. You do not see electricity. You see the light turn on. You do not see your WiFi signal. But when the internet stops working, suddenly you believe in it very strongly.
Inferential observation means you look at the signs and you conclude there is a cause behind them.
Observable and Non Observable
Some things are observable.
Some things are non observable.
Non observable does not mean non existent.
We cannot see atoms with our eyes.
We cannot see viruses without special tools.
We cannot see black holes directly.
Yet we accept them. Why?
Because we see their effects.
Scientists did not see viruses at first. They saw disease spreading. They used logic. Something smaller than bacteria must exist. Later, tools improved and they confirmed it.
First came inference. Then came sight.
So How Do We See God
Now we return to the main question.
If we cannot see God with our five senses, then how do we see Him?
We see Him through signs.
Through order in the universe.
Through the fine balance of nature.
Through the design in life.
Through the laws that hold everything together.
This is not direct observation. This is inferential observation.
You look at the effect. You think about the cause.
When you see a building, you do not see the builder standing there. But you know someone built it.
When you see a painting, you do not say the colors threw themselves on the canvas out of boredom.
When you see a universe full of laws, balance, math, and beauty, it is not strange to ask if there is a Designer.
Having the Right Eyes
When people say they want to see God, they usually mean with physical eyes.
But maybe that is the wrong tool.
You do not use your ears to see color.
You do not use your nose to solve math.
And maybe you do not use your physical eyes to see the Creator of space and time.
You use reflection.
You use reason.
You use the heart.
Seeing God is not about eyeballs. It is about insight.
Even Musa learned that the human body cannot carry that sight in this world.
So the question is not, Why can I not see God
The real question is, Am I looking in the right way
Because sometimes the greatest realities are not the ones you stare at.
They are the ones you understand.
- Chapter 7 (Surah Al-A‘raf), Verse 143 ↩︎