Page 101 - Character Types of the Unbelievers

Harun Yahya-Adnan Oktar
lit up all around them, Allah removes their light and leaves
them in darkness, unable to see. Deaf, dumb, blind. They will
not return. Or that of a storm-cloud in the sky, full of darkness,
thunder and lightning. They put their fingers in their ears

against the thunderclaps, fearful of death. Allah encompasses
the disbelievers. The lightning all but takes away their sight.
Whenever they have light, they walk in it but whenever dark-
ness covers them, they halt. If Allah wished, He could take
away their hearing and their sight. Allah has power over all
things. Humanity! Worship your Lord, Who created you and
those before you, so that hopefully you will fear Allah. (Surat

al-Baqara, 16-21)
In these examples, Allah provides an important account of why the
ignorant will be at loss. They were given the opportunity to follow the
right path, but they chose another way, disbelief. They made their choice
based on certain worldly expectations, but they have been unable to find
the true happiness, peace and any other thing that they have been look-
ing for by the means they have chosen.
On the contrary, their choices have rendered them spiritually deaf,
blind and dumb. For this reason, although they are lost, they cannot turn

away from what they have chosen.
Allah uses the example of lightning to explain their state; every time
lightening flashes it illuminates the surroundings. The travelers move on
but immediately the surroundings become buried again in darkness, and
they are confounded. So, the ignorant are deceived by thinking that they
can manage alone this brief journey they have set out on. However, as
stated in the Qur’an, salvation comes only by turning to Allah, serving

Him and living by that which He wills.

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