تفسير : (and verily he saw him) i.e. muhammad (pbuh) saw gabriel; and it is said he saw his lord with his heart; and it is said he saw his lord with his eyes, (yet another time) other than the time about which he informed you,
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and verily he saw him, in his [true] image, another time,
Sahl al-Tustari
تفسير : and verily he saw him another time,he said:that is, in the beginning when god, glorified and exalted is he, created him as a light within a column of light (nūran fī ʿamūd al-nūr), a million years before creation, with the essential characteristics of faith (ṭabāʾiʿ al-īmān), in a witnessing of the unseen within the unseen (mushāhadat al-ghayb bi’l-ghayb). he stood before him in servanthood (ʿubūdiyya), by the lote tree of the ultimate boundary [53:14], this being a tree at which the knowledge of every person reaches its limit.
