The Glorified Allah commands: “Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing. There is a veil over their eyes. There is a great punishment for them.” (Al-Baqara/ The Cow 2/7)

 

This and other verses similar to this show the consequences of negative actions. It is similar to the rusting of the iron, to the rotof a tree or to the smutting of the mirror out of negligence, because the human decay is similar to the decay of the nature.

 

The Qur’an explains the ‘fitrat’. The Glorified Allah commands: “Then set your face upright for religion in the right state– the nature made by Allah in which He has made men; there is no altering of Allah’s creation; that is the right religion, but most people do not know.” (ArRoom/The Romans 30/30)

The ‘fitrat’ stands for the creature’s basic being and for the laws and principles that express its creation, transformation, and development. The function and structure of everything; skies, earth, humans, animals, and plants is in accordance to this. Those who fit the Qur’an, act in compliance to this order and are able to benefit the highest from the earth and the skies. After death they go to heaven and reach immortality.

 

As the Qur’an relates the fitrat, those who behave in disagreement to It, behave opposite to the truth what overwhelms the balances. The overwhelming starts with the human himself. What makes the human act this way are his personal profits, expectations, and emulation. If he doesn’t quit he will get rusted like the iron and will be transformed into a new form. The Glorified Allah commands: “Nay! what they use to do has become like rust upon their hearts.” (Al-Mutaffifin/ The Cheaters 83/14)

 

Thus, people get used to the bad actions and start to enjoy them. For example, smokers; at the first cigarette they are disgusted, the second tastes horrible, but if they continue smoking something new is formed inside their bodies that makes them enjoy smoking. It is the same with the liars; at the beginning they are disturbed by their lies, but as they continue lying they are equipped with a new feeling that makes think of the lies as a necessity.

People’s commanding centre is their heart. Their reason identifies the truth. While, the heart effected by people’s personal profits, expectations and emulations accepts or denies them. Accepting the decision of the mind means to pay a price.

 

Those who don’t want to pay the price don’t accomplish a lot of the things they notice to be right. That moment the overwhelming starts. After that the eyes fail seeing certain things and the ears fail hearing certain things. The universal truths are replaced from the person’s personal rights. A new world is formed. The person finds new friends there. The Glorified Allah commands: “Haven’t you seen him who takes his low desire for his god? Allah has made him err having knowledge and has set a seal upon his ear and his heart and put a cover upon his eye. Who can then guide him after Allah (has withdrawn Guidance)? Will you not reflect yet?” (Al-Jathija/ Kneeling 45/23)

The traces in the heart and ears and the veiling of the eyes shows the newly formed subject. This verse enlightens the issue: “He who disbelieves in Allah after having believed, except for whom under compulsion with his heart remaining firm in faith, but he who opens (his) breast to disbelief, on them is the wrath of Allah. There is a grievous punishment for them.
This is because they love this world’s life more than the hereafter. This, because Allah does not guide the unbelieving people, the disregarders of the truth.
These are they on whose hearts and their hearing and their eyes Allah has set a seal, and these are the heedless ones.” (Al-Nahl/The Bee 16/106-108)

 

 The words ____hatm and ___tab mentioned in this and similar verses mean both to mark with something like stamp and the trace left[1]. In many translations the meaning of these words has been explained as locking, enclosing or stamping. In the 7^th verse of Al-Baqara it has been given this explanation: “[2]”

According to us this translation is against the entirety of Koran. If Allah had enclosed their hearts and ears and had veiled their eyes then there is nothing the ‘kafirs’ can do. In this case, their punishment is unfair. But Allah never commits injustice. The Glorified Allah commands: “And when Musa said to his people: O my people! why do you give me trouble? And you know indeed that I am Allah’s apostle to you; but when they turned aside, Allah made their hearts turn aside, and Allah does not guide the transgressing people” (As-Saff/ The Rank 61/5)

In this and similar verses it is related that how negative actions teach the bad habits. This is Allah’s law. In the world of proof, foundation is very close to devastation.

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