A hadith speaks of God’s seventy thousand veils of light and darkness, which if lifted would burn whatever his gaze reached. Sufis interpret the veils as the soul’s attachments and its very selfhood; the path lifts them one by one. The ego, said some, is the thickest veil.
Veils
Ḥijāb: what conceals God from the soul, often said to be seventy thousand veils of light and darkness.
Also: hijab