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Know that Allah brings the earth to life after it their backs in flight. (30:52)
was dead. We have made the Signs clear to you Such are the people Allah has cursed, making
so that hopefully you will use your intellect. them deaf and blinding their eyes. (47:23)
(57:17)
Is He Who does this not able to bring the dead to DEATH
life? (75:40) Or (their likeness is) that of a storm-cloud in the
Did We not make the earth a receptacle for the sky, full of darkness, thunder and lightning. They
living and the dead? (77:25-26) put their fingers in their ears against the thunder-
claps, fearful of death. Allah encompasses the
DEAF disbelievers. (2:19)
Deaf, dumb, blind. They will not return. (2:18) Then We brought you back to life after your
The likeness of those who disbelieve is that of the death, so that perhaps you would show thanks.
beast which, call out to it as one may, can hear (2:56)
nothing but a shout and a cry. Deaf–dumb–blind. Say, ‘If the abode of the hereafter with Allah is for
They do not use their intellect. (2:171) you alone, to the exclusion of all others, then
They thought there would be no testing. They long for death if you are telling the truth.’ But
were blind and deaf. Then Allah turned towards they will never ever long for it because of what
them. Then many of them went blind and deaf they have done. Allah knows the wrongdoers.
again. Allah sees what they do. (5:71) (2:94-95)
Those who deny Our Signs are deaf and dumb in Or were you present when death came to Ya‘qub
utter darkness. Allah misguides whoever He and he said to his sons, ‘What will you worship
wills, and puts whoever He wills on a straight when I have gone?’ They said, ‘We will worship
path. (6:39) your God, the God of your forefathers, Ibrahim,
The worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf Isma‘il and Ishaq–one God. We are Muslims sub-
and dumb who have no intellect. (8:22) mitted to Him.’ (2:133)
The likeness of the two groups is that of the blind It is prescribed for you, when death approaches
and deaf and the seeing and hearing. Are they one of you and if he has some goods to leave, to
the same as one another? So will you not pay make a will in favour of his parents and relatives,
heed? (11:24) correctly and fairly: a duty for all those who
Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But as for guard against evil. (2:180)
those He leads astray, you will not find any pro- What do you think about those who left their
tectors for them apart from Him. We will gather homes in thousands in fear of death? Allah said
them on the Day of Rising, flat on their faces, to them, ‘Die!’ and then brought them back to
blind, dumb and deaf. Their shelter will be Hell. life. Allah shows great favour to mankind, but
Whenever the Blaze dies down, We will increase most people are not grateful. (2:243)
it for them. (17:97) You were longing for death before you met it.
Say: ‘I can only warn you through the Now you have seen it with your own eyes.
Revelation.’ But the deaf cannot hear the call (3:143)
when they are warned. (21:45) They are those who said of their brothers, when
(Believers are) those who, when they are re- they themselves had stayed behind, ‘If they had
minded of the Signs of their Lord, do not turn only obeyed us, they would not have been
their backs, deaf and blind to them; (25:73) killed.’ Say, ‘Then ward off death from yourselves
You will not make dead men hear and you will if you are telling the truth.’ (3:168)
not make deaf men hear the call when they turn Every self will taste death. You will be paid your
their backs in flight. (27:80) wages in full on the Day of Rising. Anyone who
You will not make dead men hear; you will not is distanced from the Fire and admitted to the
make deaf men hear the call, when they turn Garden has triumphed. The life of this world is
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