16إِذ يَغشَى السِّدرَةَ ما يَغشىٰMuhammad Asadwith the lote-tree veiled in a veil of nameless splendour....1Lit., "when the lote-tree was veiled with whatever veiled [it]": a phrase deliberately vague (mubham), indicative of the inconceivable majesty and splendour attaching to this symbol of paradise "which no description can picture and no definition can embrace" (Zamakhshari).