A018
Surah: 002 - Ayah: 018
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2:18
Summ (Deaf ones)
It is said in verse (2:18): "Deaf, dumb, blind; and they return not." The wisdom-filled allusion of this verse is that, first of all, one has to listen to the conversation of the knowledge of certainty, then in the light of that he has to speak and then he has to see with the eye of certainty. The reason for this is that both physically and spiritually, the importance of hearing is that whoever is deaf from the very beginning also necessarily becomes dumb and consequently the intellect is not created in him. That is, he remains blind with respect to the inner eye, i.e. the intellect.
Q43 The wise Qur’an in verse (2:18) says about the disbelievers: “They are deaf, dumb and blind; so they do not return.” Are they in this condition physically or spiritually?
A43 In verse (7:179), God says: “They have hearts but do not understand with them, they have eyes but they do not see with them, they have ears but they do not hear with them. They are like cattle, nay even worse than them”. This verse shows that they are spiritually deaf, dumb and blind, not physically.
This verse has been referred 6 times.