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rivers flowing under them. But We will punish It is He Who has created hearing, sight and hearts
with a painful punishment anyone who turns his for you. What little thanks you show! (23:78)
back. (48:17) Do you not see that Allah propels the clouds then
We have only appointed angels as masters of the makes them coalesce then heaps them up, and
Fire and We have only specified their number as then you see the rain come pouring out of the
a trial for those who disbelieve; so that those who middle of them? And He sends down mountains
were given the Book might gain in certainty, and from the sky with hail inside them, striking with it
those who believe might increase in their faith, anyone He wills and averting it from anyone He
and both those who were given the Book and the wills. The brightness of His lightning almost
believers might have no doubt; and so that those blinds the sight. (24:43)
with sickness in their hearts and the disbelievers Then (He) formed him and breathed His Spirit
might say, ‘What did Allah intend by this exam- into him and gave you hearing, sight and hearts.
ple?’ In this way Allah misguides those He wills What little thanks you show! (32:9)
and guides those He wills. No one knows the le- He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You
gions of your Lord but Him. This is nothing but a will not find any flaw in the creation of the All-
reminder to all human beings. (74:31) Merciful. Look again– do you see any gaps? Then
look again and again. Your sight will return to
SIGHT you dazzled and exhausted! (67:3-4)
The lightning all but takes away their sight. Say: ‘It is He Who brought you into being and
Whenever they have light, they walk in it but gave you hearing, sight and hearts. What little
whenever darkness covers them, they halt. If thanks you show!’ (67:23)
Allah wished, He could take away their hearing
and their sight. Allah has power over all things. SIGN - MIRACLE
(2:20) They said, ‘No matter what kind of Sign you
We will overturn their hearts and sight, just as bring us to bewitch us, we will not believe in
when they did not believe in it at first, and We you.’ (7:132)
will abandon them to wander blindly in their ex- So We sent down on them floods, locusts, lice,
cessive insolence. (6:110) frogs and blood, Signs, clear and distinct, but
Say: ‘Who provides for you out of heaven and they proved arrogant and were an evildoing peo-
earth? Who controls hearing and sight? Who ple. (7:133)
brings forth the living from the dead and the dead Put your hand under your arm and press it to
from the living? Who directs the whole affair?’ your side. It will emerge pure white yet quite un-
They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘So will you not guard harmed, another Sign. (20:22)
against evil?’ (10:31) In this way We show you some of Our greatest
But when the bringer of the good news came, he Signs. (20:23)
(Yusuf's father) cast it on his face and sight re- Then he (Musa) showed him the Great Sign.
turned. He said, ‘Did I not say to you before, I (79:20)
know things from Allah you do not know?’
(12:96) SIJJIN
Do not consider Allah to be unaware of what the No indeed! The book of the dissolute is in Sijjin.
wrongdoers perpetrate. He is merely deferring (83:7)
them to a Day on which their sight will be trans- And what will convey to you what Sijjin is?
fixed, rushing headlong–heads back, eyes vacant, (83:8)
hearts hollow. (14:42-43)
Those are the people whose hearts, hearing and SILK
sight Allah has sealed up. They are the unaware. They will have Gardens of Eden with rivers flow-
(16:108) ing under them. They will be adorned in them
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