Dr Ibrahim Kalin - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre

Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own
desire? Then would you be a guardian over him?
{43} Or do you think that most of them hear or reason?
They are only like cattle; nay, they are even farther astray
from the Path. {44} (Al-Furqan, 25:43–44).
Animals serve the purpose for which they have been created.
But those who have been created to worship God take
their own ego as their master and worship themselves even
though they have been given clear signs. This is where their
‘hearing’ and ‘reasoning’ comes to no avail. 25 The Qur’an
goes further and challenges those who claim to see and hear
when in fact their conscience has been blinded:
And among them are those who listen to you. But can
you cause the deaf to hear, although they will not
use reason? {42} And among them are those who look
at you. But can you guide the blind although they will
not [attempt to] see? {43} Indeed, God does not wrong
the people at all, but it is the people who are wronging
themselves. {44} (Yunus, 10:42–44).
And We have certainly created for Hell many of the
jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which
25 Ibn Kathir, Tafsir al-qur’an al-‘azim, (Beirut: Dar al-Ma’rifah, 2006),
p. 1141.
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