The Quran is full of reminders that indicate how
crucial the blessings of our eyesight, hearing,
and brains to increase our knowledge
and properly perceive the true guidance and the
teaching lessons of God.
[16:78] GOD brought you
out of your mothers' bellies knowing
nothing, and He gave you
the hearing, the eyesight, and the
brains, that you may be appreciative.
Crucial Advice
[17:36]
You shall not accept
any information,
unless you
verify it
for yourself. I have given you
the hearing,
the
eyesight, and
the brain, and
you are responsible for using
them.
[50:36] Many a
generation before them, who were more
powerful, we annihilated. They searched
the land; did they find an escape?
[50:37]
This should be a lesson
for everyone
who
possesses a mind,
or
is able to
hear and
witness.
God tells us that these three vital
signs become disabled or useless when we
reject the truth or even parts of it.
Once we maintain this status, without
any reevaluation of direction or
repentance, God augments our loss ; our
eyes cannot see any more, our
brains wouldn't comprehend or receive
information, and our ears get
programmed to only hear from Satan and
his constituents:
[2:10] In their
minds there is a disease.
Consequently, GOD augments their
disease. They have incurred a
painful retribution for their lying.
(2) The Disbelievers
[2:6] As for
those who disbelieve, it is the same for
them; whether you warn them, or not warn
them, they cannot believe.
[2:7] GOD
seals their minds and their hearing, and
their eyes are veiled. They
have incurred severe retribution.
Preoccupation With This Life
Leads to Exile From God
[16:107] This is
because they have given priority to this
life over the Hereafter, and GOD does not
guide such disbelieving people.
[16:108]
Those are the ones whom GOD
has sealed their
hearts, and their
hearing, and their
eyesight.
Consequently, they remain unaware.
Common Form of Idolatry: The Ego As
A god
[45:23] Have
you noted the one whose god is his ego?
Consequently, GOD sends him
astray, despite his knowledge,
seals his hearing and his mind, and places a
veil on his eyes. Who then can
guide him, after such a decision by GOD?
Would you not take heed?
They Ridiculed the Messenger's
Warnings
[46:26] We had
established them in the same way as we
established you, and provided them with
hearing,
eyes,
and minds.
But their hearing, eyes, and
minds did not help them at all. This is
because they decided to disregard GOD's
revelations. Thus, the
prophecies and warnings that they ridiculed
have caused their doom.
It is noteworthy that among the vital
signs of physically living on earth are
the eyesight, the hearing, and the
ability to use our brain power. Our
Creator, uses the allegory of being
guided/saved as being alive with the
vital blessings of the eyesight, the
hearing and the brain. Thus, He
emphasized that these three are
the vital signs of guidance. We are
announced dead, and our bodies
deteriorate when our brains are entirely
dead. The same applies to our souls
; they are also announced dead by God
almighty in the Quran once we become
deaf, dumb, and blind to the true source
of eternity and salvation. In that
sense, we become like the walking dead.
Please reflect on the following patterns
and descriptions of the walking dead:
[27:80]
You cannot make
the dead,
nor the deaf,
hear the call,
if they turn away.
[27:81]
Nor can
you guide
the blind out of their
straying.
The only ones who will hear you are
those who believe in our
revelations, and decide to be
submitters.
[22:46] Did they not
roam the earth,
then use
their minds
to understand, and use their
ears
to hear? Indeed, the real
blindness is not the blindness of the eyes,
but the blindness of the hearts inside the
chests.
[7:198]
When
you invite them to the guidance, they do not
hear. And you see them looking at you, but
they do not see.
[17:97] Whomever GOD
guides is the truly guided one. And whomever
He sends astray, you will never find for
them any lords and masters beside Him.
We will summon them on the Day of
Resurrection forcibly; blind, dumb, and
deaf. Their destination is Hell; whenever it
cools down, we will increase their fire.
[7:178] Whomever GOD
guides is the truly guided one, and whomever
He commits to straying, these are the
losers.
Satan Hypnotizes His Constituents
[7:179] We have
committed to Hell
multitudes
of jinns and humans. They have
minds with which they do not understand,
eyes with which they do not see, and ears
with which they do not hear.
They are like animals; no, they are
far worse - they are
totally unaware.
[8:20] O you who
believe, obey GOD and His messenger, and do
not disregard him
while you
hear.
The Disbelievers
Blocked Out
[8:21]
Do not be like those who say,
"We hear," when they do not hear.
[8:22]
The worst creatures in the sight of
GOD are the
deaf and dumb, who do not understand.
[2:16] It is they who
bought the straying, at the expense of guidance.
Such trade never prospers, nor do they receive
any guidance.
[2:17] Their
example is like those who start a fire, then, as
it begins to shed light around them, GOD takes
away their light, leaving them in darkness,
unable to see.
[2:18]
Deaf,
dumb, and blind; they fail to return.
[2:171]
The example of
such disbelievers is that of parrots who repeat
what they hear of sounds and calls,
without understanding.
Deaf, dumb, and blind; they cannot
understand.
[10:42] Some of them
listen to you, but can you make the
deaf hear, even though they cannot understand?
Humans Freely Choose Their Paths
[10:43] Some
of them look at you, but can you guide the
blind, even though they do not see?
[10:44]
GOD never
wrongs the people; it is the people who wrong
their own souls.
The Disbelievers
[11:20] These will never
escape, nor will they find any lords or masters
to help them against GOD. Retribution will be
doubled for them.
They have failed to hear, and they
have failed to see.
[11:21]
These are the
ones who lose their souls, and the idols they
had fabricated will disown them.
[18:100] We will present
Hell, on that day, to the disbelievers.
[18:101] They
are the ones whose eyes were too veiled to see
My message. Nor could they hear.
[17:46] We
place shields around their minds, to prevent
them from understanding it, and deafness in
their ears. And when you
preach your Lord, using the Quran alone,* they
run away in aversion.
Overwhelming
Miracle of the Quran
[6:39] Those
who reject our proofs are deaf and dumb, in
total darkness. Whomever GOD wills,
He sends astray, and whomever He wills, He leads
in a straight path.
[30:58] Thus, we have
cited for the people in this Quran all kinds of
examples. Yet, no matter what kind of proof you
present to the disbelievers, they say, "You are
falsifiers."
Divine Intervention
[30:59] GOD
thus seals the hearts of those who do not know.
The death of the soul starts on earth when we
pursue the above death road. By losing our
vital signs of guidance: the hearing, the
eyesight and the brain, we suffocate our own
souls. When we continue on this death path, we
are announced "dead" by God - the living dead
out of their graves.
[29:54] They challenge
you to bring retribution!
Hell already surrounds the disbelievers.
[35:18]
No soul
can carry the sins of another soul. If a soul
that is loaded with sins implores another to
bear part of its load, no other soul can carry
any part of it, even if they were related.
The only people to heed your warnings
are those who reverence their Lord, even when
alone in their privacy, and observe
the Contact Prayers (Salat). Whoever purifies
his soul, does so for his own good. To GOD is
the final destiny.
[35:19] The blind
and the seer are not equal.
[35:20] Nor are
the darkness and the light.
[35:21] Nor are
the coolness of the shade and the heat of the
sun.
[35:22]
Nor are the living and the dead; GOD causes
whomever He wills to hear. You cannot make
hearers out of those in the graves.
___________________
[3:193] "Our Lord, we
have heard a caller calling to faith and
proclaiming: `You shall believe in your Lord,'
and we have believed. Our Lord, forgive us our
transgressions, remit our sins, and let us die
as righteous believers.
[3:194] "Our Lord, shower
us with the blessings you promised us through
Your messengers, and do not forsake us on the
Day of Resurrection. You never break a promise."
Peaceful Friday, salaam, and God bless.
