Editing Screen: Surah al-An`am 6 : 39

Editing: al-An`am

Description <p><strong>Explanatory Note</strong></p> <p>This is indeed a reiteration in a new form, using a different scene concerning the fact that only those who listen attentively will respond, while those who are dead can make no response. Those who deny God’s signs which are present all over the universe, and who also deny God’s revelations, do so because their receptive faculties have been knocked out of order. They are deaf, unable to hear; dumb, unable to speak; groping in total darkness, unable to see. This is not a description of their physical status, because they indeed have eyes, ears and mouths. It is rather that their faculty of comprehension is not working, which makes their senses of no value, as if they cannot receive or transmit any signal. This is an apt description because God’s revelations have their own inherent effect, if they are only properly received. Only a person whose nature has been corrupted turns away from them because he is no longer able to benefit by guidance or rise to the higher level of life which divine revelations promote.</p> <p>God’s will is seen to work behind all this. It is God’s will which has determined that this particular species of creation, known as man, has the dual ability to follow guidance or go astray, according to his own free choice, not as a result of any compulsion. This is how God lets whomever He wills go astray and how He helps whomever He wills follow the straight path. His will helps everyone who strives to implement divine guidance, while it abandons and lets go astray anyone who stubbornly rejects guidance. It does no injustice to anyone.</p>

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