Allah has personal Faculty of sight
The Holy Qur’an also describes Allah’s faculty of sight. Allah is able to see everything; nothing is hidden from His sight. Foolish people try to hide their crimes and sinful activities but Allah sees everything. Nothing can obscure His vision or escape His notice. Our eyes fully depend on light. In darkness we cannot see even ourselves. But Allah’s vision is independent. Such extraordinary ability to see can belong only to The Supreme Spiritual Person.
Thus it is explained in the sura “Al-Baqarah”, or “The Cow”:
Wataqullaha wa’-lamu ‘annallaha bima ta’-maluna Basir: “Fear Allah and know that Allah sees well what you do.” (2.233)
Then again Allah states:
Inni bima ta’-maluna Basir: “Behold! I am Seer of what you do.” (34.11)
Ustad Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments:
“. . . They were told that Allah was watching over them all with personal solicitude implied in the singular pronoun “I”.” (9, p. 1276)
This means Allah has the personal ability basar, to see everything. Basar or ability to see indicates personality. Allah said in the Holy Qur’an, “Bima ta’-maluna Basir”, “I am Seer of what you do”. This means that seeing of Allah is not an abstract observation but it is vision of a personality. Allah sees what we do at every moment of our lives and He reciprocates accordingly. Allah is the Witness of our activities. Out of His causeless mercy, He personally watches and guides us. This is Allah – the Seer, the Witness, the Watcher which, in the ultimate sense, means He is a Person. He personally sees, He can’t be an abstract observing us. No. Allah is the personal Seer, One Who witnesses, One Who watches with His all-seeing eyes, all this clearly informs us, not only is Allah a person but He is the Supreme Transcendental Person.
