5. ALLAH GIFTED HUMANS WITH INTELLECT TO ESTABLISH EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM
I looked in the verse,
“Do you not see that Allah prostrates whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth and the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the moving creatures and many of the people?” [al-Hajj (22): 18]
Wherein Allah, Most High, stated that all inanimate objects were depicted to be prostrating, whereas in the verse,
“But upon many the punishment has been justified. And he whom Allah humiliates—for him there is no bestower of honour. Indeed, Allah does what He wills.” [a l-H a jj (22): 18]
He exempted a group from the intelligent. This dissimilarity between inanimate objects and mankind reminded me of the lines of poetry that say:
The silent did not disbelieve in the One who created it
Whereas some of the speaking creatures dared to disbelieve.
I said, “This is indeed a great power! He grants a man intellect then deprives him of its benefit! This is the strongest evidence of the existence of the Almighty and the All-Powerful!
Otherwise, how could a person with sensibility and intellect not know the existence of the One who brought him into existence?
And how could such a person sculpture an idol and then worship it?
This would have not been the case if not for Allah granting some people the sense of intellect to establish evidence against them, yet then He blinded their hearts to deviate from the right path.
(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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