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Seeing God in Sufi Qur'an Commentaries

The Islamic hereafter is often imagined as a place of corporeal reward or punishment. But what is the place of this corporeal hereafter in the imagination of renunciant mystics who wish to completely renounce God’s creation for His sake? Isn’t Paradise after all part of God’s creation as well? Should it be hoped for, or is there something more quintessential awaiting the mystic: seeing God? And how then can this transcendental God be seen? Is it a vision with the eye or with the heart, or both? And is this vision only reserved for the hereafter or can those passionately longing for it already obtain a taste of this reward during this-worldly life? This study sheds light on these questions by discussing the mediaeval mystical exegesis of some key verses on seeing God.