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Verily Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are in the graves.” “You are naught but a Warner.” Commentary: The believers are some heartily and hale persons who enjoy the real life. Faith gives life to both an individual and society, while disbelief is a factor of spiritual death for both an individual and the society.

Pursuing the discussions about faith and disbelief in the former holy verses, the verses under discussion mention four interesting parables concerning the believers and disbelievers in which the signs of faith and infidelity have been illustrated in the most manifest form. In the first parable, a disbeliever and a believer are likened to a blind person and a seeing person.

It says: “And the blind and the seeing are not alike,” Faith is both light and light giver; and it gives light and cognition to man’s whole life in his world-view, belief, action. But infidelity is darkness in which there is neither a correct insight for the whole world of existence, nor a proper conviction, nor a righteous deed. In this regard, the Qur’a-n in Sura Al-Baqarah, No.

2, verse 257 expressively says: “Allah is the Guardian of those who have faith; He brings them out of darkness into light, and those who reject faith, their guardians are false-deities (T?a-qu-t), who bring them out of light into darkness; they are the inhabitants of the Fire wherein shall they abide forever.” Then, it implies that since only the seeing-eye is not enough there must be a light, too, so that, by the help of these two factors, the things can be observed.

The next holy verse concerning the equality of them, says: “Nor the darkness and the light,” The reason of it is that darkness is the cause of mislead. It is the factor of dangers, but light is the source of life, living, movement, growth, and development.