Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Hayat Al-Qulub Vol.3 Part 4: The Signs and Proofs are the Holy Imams The Signs and Proofs as mentioned in the Holy Quran and also what is meant by the Book of Allah (according to their inner meaning) are the Holy Imams (a.s.) Ali bin Ibrahim has, narrated with reliable chains of narrators that Imam Baqir (a.s.) had said, while explaining the verse: وَالَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا صُمٌّ وَبُكْمٌ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ مَنْ يَشَأْ اللَّهُ يُضْلِلْهُ وَمَنْ يَشَأْ يَجْعَلْهُ عَلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ.
And they who reject Our communications are deaf and dumb, in utter darkness; whom Allah pleases He causes to err and whom He pleases He puts on the right way. (Sura Anam 6:39) The apparent meaning of which is: Those who belied our verses are such deaf that they do not hear the verses as they should be heard so that they may benefit by them and who are so dumb that they do not speak the true word. They are groping restlessly in the darkness of blasphemy and waywardness.
Allah deviates whom He wants to deviate, that is He leaves the one who is not capable of Divine Mercy to Himself and He guides to the right path one whom He wants. The Imam (a.s.) said that this verse has been revealed for the group which belied messengers and their legatees and it is only those who are deaf and dumb. As Allah says, they are surrounded by darkness. The one who is an offspring of Satan does not testify the legatees and does not put faith in them.
They are those whom Allah deviates. The one who is from the progeny of Adam (a.s.) and in whose seed Satan has not participated, puts faith in messengers and their legatees and he is on the right path. The narrator says that he heard the Hazrat saying that wherever the words: who reject Our communications are mentioned what is meant is the belying of all the legatees.[^1] Similarly in the explanation of the verse: وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَنْ آيَاتِنَا غَافِلُونَ.
And those who are heedless of Our communications. (Sura Yunus 10:7) It is narrated that here ‘communications’ means Amirul Momineen (a.s.) and the Infallible Imams (a.s.) and that the evidence of this statement is the word of Imam Ali (a.s.): No sign of Allah is greater than I am. Likewise, according to reliable chains of narrators, Imam Sadiq (a.s.) is reported to have said, in the explanation of the verse: وَمَا تُغْنِي الْآيَاتُ وَالنُّذُرُ عَنْ قَوْمٍ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ.