2. HOW ALLAH TAKES AWAY PEOPLE’S HEARING (SAM) AND SIGHT (BASR)
I read the verse, that says,
“Say, ‘Have you considered: if Allah should take away your hearing and your sight and set a seal upon your hearts, which deity other than Allah could bring them [back] to you?’ Look how We diversify the verses; then they [still] turn away.”
[al-Anam (6):46]
And an interesting meaning sparked into my heart that blew me away, which is: if the verse meant with seeing (basr) and hearing (.sami) being two instruments, then we know that hearing is a faculty to realise the hear-able and seeing is a faculty’ to realise the see-able. Both of which deliver their perceptions and images into the heart {(qalb) to review and reflect
When these two faculties perceive the creation, they inform the heart that this creation is evidence of the existence of the Creator; and hence they drive the heart to obey Him and fear Him when it disobeys His commands.’
But, if the verse meant with seeing and hearing the actual seeing and hearing, then the verse would mean that both will fail to notice the purpose of what they realised because of their full engagement with the whims and desires (bawa). Therefore a person will then be punished by having these two faculties become dysfunctional and not serve their purpose.
Thus, a person sees but does not comprehend what he sees. Hears but does not understand what he hears, and the heart fails to notice that which harms it and becomes unaware of the purpose ot its creation. Hence a person becomes untouched by the fact that he will perish and not benefit from the sermons he hears, nor knows where he stands in this world, nor for what purpose he was created, nor where he will be carried. Rather, he heeds with his inherent aptitude of his needs to the immediate benefits and does not think of the loss of his hereafter— and so he does not reflect on his companions or learn from his friends and does not acquire a provision to survive the journey [in the 1 hereafter].
This is the case of most people; I seek refuge with Allah from being deprived of the benefits (fawa’id) of our bodily instruments for it is indeed the worst of all cases.
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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