12. `Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Imran al-Daqqaq said: Muhammad ibn Abu `Abd Allah al-Kufi said on the authority of who he mentioned, on the authority of Muhammad ibn `Isa, on the authority of Dawud ibn al-Qasim on the authority of Abu Hashim al-Ja`fari that I asked Abu Ja`far ibn al-Rida about:

Vision comprehends Him not, and He comprehends (all) vision. Hence, he replied: O Abu Hashim! The imagination of mind is more precise than the vision of the eyes. You may imagine Sind, India, the towns which you have not visited, and which you have not seen with your eyes. Thus, if imagination cannot comprehend Him, how can the eyes?”