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Free Choice And Divine Seal upon the Hearts of the Perverse - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Free Choice And Divine Seal upon the Hearts of the Perverse 2022-11-16 501 Views free will , Free Choice In many Qur’anic verses, there is mention of the unbelievers’ and hypocrites’ hearts, eyes, and ears being sealed and of the sinful and perverse being misled.

Therefore, a question that might come to mind is: Isn’t there a discrepancy between Islam’s view of the human being as a creature endowed with free choice and the assertion of the Qur’an that Allah shuts the hearts, ears and eyes of some to the truth? At the outset, we will consider two Quranic verses, thereafter elucidating the answer to the above question.

Contents The meanings of Khatm, Tab’, and Qalb Brief Answer Detailed Answer In the first verse, we read: “As for the faithless, it is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not have faith.

Allah has set a seal on their hearts and their hearing, and there is a blindfold on their sight and there is a great punishment for them.” (1) In the second verse, we read: “Allah has set a seal on their hearts, so they do not know.” (2) The meanings of Khatm, Tab’, and Qalb The term Khatm is contrasted to fath (to “begin” or “start”) and means “to complete something” or “to reach the end”. The reason why khatm is translated as “sealing” is that the seal in a letter indicates its end.

A letter is sealed when it is finished, barring the addition of new material. (3) Tab‘ also denotes the act of sealing (in which sense it is close in meaning to khatm ) as well as sketching, imprinting, and forging metals into coins. (4) Qalb is employed in the Quran in different senses, such as soul, heart, self, intellect, knowledge, etc. (5) Nevertheless, it can generally be said that the human being possesses two types of heart: the corporeal heat and the spiritual heart.

The corporeal heart is, in physiological terminology and in the vernacular, a muscular organ with a peculiar shape, whose function is the circulation and purification of blood, and in most human beings rests in the left section of the chest. The spiritual heart is one and the same as the spirit and the psyche of the human being.