Page 44 - The Importance of Following the Good Word

Those Who Feign Not to Hear the Good Word
Among the disbelievers, who reject compliance to the ad-
vice of the believers, there are those who will have various re-
actions, become aggressive, turn their faces, or those who
have more severe responses like rage and hatred. Other than
these rather extreme reactions, however, there are also those
who will pretend not to hear such admonitions at all, and re-
main unresponsive. In the Qur'an, Allah introduces us to
these people . In the words of one verse, they are described as
" … those whose hearts are hard..." (Surat al-Hajj, 53) The
sincere and well thought-out explanations offered by the be-
lievers do not produce any effect on such people. In the
Qur'an, Allah explains the reason for this indifference, as fol-
lows:
... They have hearts they do not understand with. They
have eyes they do not see with. They have ears they do
not hear with. Such people are like cattle. No, they are
even further astray! They are the unaware. (Surat al-
A`raf, 179)
Among them there are some who listen to you. But can
you make the deaf hear even though they cannot un-
derstand? Among them there are some who look at
you. But can you guide the blind, even though they
cannot see? Allah does not wrong people in any way;
rather it is people who wrong themselves. (Surah
Yunus, 42-44)
Say: "I can only warn you through the Revelation."
But the deaf cannot hear the call when they are
warned. (Surat al-Anbiya´, 45)

42 THE IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWING THE GOOD WORD