A Survey of Commentators` Views in Commenting the Verses Containing the Demand of Observing God

In some of the verses containing some people`s demand of the sight of God, such as verses 55 of Baqarah, 153 Nisa` and 143 A`raf, a group of the children of Israel and the prophet Moses (as) requested the sight of God. Whether the demand has been form the prophet Moses (as) himself or from the children of Israel, and given the latter, whether the demanded vision has been a visual or a non-visual, difference of view is found among the interpreters; some have taken the vision demanded by Prophet Moses (as) as being visual and originally as being of his people, some believe that the demand for visual vision is from the prophet himself, and the third group has called the vision demanded by prophet Moses (as) to be self-evident knowledge of God. From the study of the verses, it seems that the vision requested by the prophet Moses (as) has been a visual one demanded originally by the people.