ا لَّذينَ يُجادِلُونَ في آياتِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ سُلْطانٍ...
ا لَّذينَ يُجادِلُونَ في آياتِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ سُلْطانٍ أَتاهُمْ كَبُرَ مَقْتاً عِنْدَ اللَّهِ وَ عِنْدَ الَّذينَ آمَنُوا كَذلِكَ يَطْبَعُ اللَّهُ عَلى كُلِّ قَلْبِ مُتَكَبِّرٍ جَبَّارٍ62 “Those who argue about God's signs without any authority to do so having been brought them, incur the greatest disgust so far as God is concerned and so far as those who believe are concerned.
Thus, God seals off every overbearing oppressor's heart."” Or sometimes like in the Surah of Al-Hajj, Quran identifies a group of people to have a blinded heart: أَ فَلَمْ يَسيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَتَكُونَ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ يَعْقِلُونَ بِها أَوْ آذانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِها فَإِنَّها لا تَعْمَى الْأَبْصارُ وَ لكِنْ تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتي فِي الصُّدُورِ 63 “Have they not travelled around the Earth so they may acquire hearts to reason with or ears to listen with?
It is not their eyesight which is blind, but their hearts in their breasts which are blind.” Thereby they become worse than beasts وَ لَقَدْ ذَرَأْنا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثيراً مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْإِنْسِ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لا يَفْقَهُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لا يُبْصِرُونَ بِها وَ لَهُمْ آذانٌ لا يَسْمَعُونَ بِها أُولئِكَ كَالْأَنْعامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُولئِكَ هُمُ الْغافِلُونَ 64 “We have bred many spirits and humans for Hell: they have hearts they do not understand with, and eyes they do not see with, and ears they do not hear with.
Those persons are like livestock; in fact, they are even further off the track, they are so heedless!” Relentless Heart Another kind of corruption of heart is being stringent. A heart that does not admit to any positive events and signs will not benefit from God’s signs.
فَلَوْ لا إِذْ جاءَهُمْ بَأْسُنا تَضَرَّعُوا وَ لكِنْ قَسَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَ زَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطانُ ما كانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ 65 “Why then did they not act submissive when Our violence came to them, but instead their hearts were hardened and Satan made whatever they were doing seem attractive to them” Obsessive Doubt Doubt is a disease of the heart. The inactive heart cannot make a decision in the sensitive, profound and history making moment.
We can find many people who because of this infection changed the destiny of a nation. In the war of Tabook some Muslims did assist in the battlefield. Unfortunately, the rest of the forces were in doubt. They came to Prophet and asked for permission to go back to Medina.
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