[2:69-70] '...a golden cow, bright in color, gladdening to beholders'. * They said, 'Pray to your Lord for us, that He make clear to us what she may be; the cows are all alike to us; and if God wills, we shall then be guided'.
Just as her [bright] color would have been perceived by the eyes, the allusion here is to those of the People of the Story (ahl al-qiṣṣa) whose witnessing overwhelms the hearts [of others] because of that which is clothed with the garment of invincibility (jabarūt) and made to rise from the witness of the Unseen. One notices such a one has become oblivious to human states and has been taken over by the remembrance of the Real. Thus, in the transmitted tradition: The saints of God are those who, when they are seen, God is remembered.