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HEALING hearts for you. What little thanks you show!
Fight them! Allah will punish them at your (23:78)
hands, and disgrace them and help you against They give them (Satans) a hearing and most of
them, and heal the hearts of those who believe. them are liars. (26:223)
(9:14) Then (He) formed him and breathed His Spirit
Mankind! Admonition has come to you from into him and gave you hearing, sight and hearts.
your Lord and also healing for what is in the What little thanks you show! (32:9)
breasts and guidance and mercy for the believ- Say: ‘It is He Who brought you into being and
ers. (10:57) gave you hearing, sight and hearts. What little
(Your Lord revealed to the bees:) ‘Then eat from thanks you show!’ (67:23)
every kind of fruit and travel the paths of your
Lord, which have been made easy for you to fol- HEART
low.’ From inside them comes a drink of varying Allah has sealed up their hearts and hearing and
colours, containing healing for mankind. There is over their eyes is a blindfold. They will have a
certainly a Sign in that for people who reflect. terrible punishment. (2:7)
(16:69) There is a sickness in their hearts and Allah has
We send down in the Qur’an that which is a increased their sickness. They will have a painful
healing and a mercy to the believers, but it only punishment on account of their denial. (2:10)
increases the wrongdoers in loss. (17:82) Then your hearts became hardened after that, so
(Ibrahim said,) ‘and when I am ill, it is He Who they were like rocks or even harder still. There
heals me;’ (26:80) are some rocks from which rivers gush out, and
If We had made it a Qur’an in a foreign tongue others which split open and water pours out, and
they would have said, ‘Why have its Signs not others which crash down from fear of Allah.
been made plain? What! A foreign language for Allah is not unaware of what you do. (2:74)
an Arab?’ Say: ‘It is guidance and healing for peo- They say, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised.’ Rather,
ple who believe. Those who do not believe have Allah has cursed them for their disbelief. What
heaviness in their ears and for them it is blind- little faith they have! (2:88)
ness. Such people are being called from a very Remember when We made a covenant with you
distant place.’ (41:44) and lifted up the Mount above your heads: ‘Take
hold vigorously of what We have given you and
HEARING listen.’ They said, ‘We hear and disobey.’ They
Allah has sealed up their hearts and hearing and were made to drink the Calf into their hearts be-
over their eyes is a blindfold. They will have a cause of their disbelief. Say, ‘If you are believers,
terrible punishment. (2:7) what an evil thing your faith has made you do.’
Say: ‘Who provides for you out of heaven and (2:93)
earth? Who controls hearing and sight? Who Say, ‘Anyone who is the enemy of Gabriel should
brings forth the living from the dead and the dead know that it was he who brought it down upon
from the living? Who directs the whole affair?’ your heart, by Allah’s authority, confirming what
They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘So will you not guard came before, and as guidance and good news for
against evil?’. (10:31) the believers. (2:97)
Those are the people whose hearts, hearing and Those who do not know say, ‘If only Allah would
sight Allah has sealed up. They are the unaware. speak to us, or some sign come to us!’ just like
(16:108) those before them who said the same as they say.
Do not pursue what you have no knowledge of. Their hearts are much the same. We have made
Hearing, sight and hearts will all be questioned. the Signs clear for people who have certainty.
(17:36) (2:118)
It is He Who has created hearing, sight and Among the people there is someone whose
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