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Sahih International
O you who have believed, obey Allah and His Messenger and do not turn from him while you hear [his order].
A Critical Reasoning:
What does this mean?
- Allah ORDERS you to OBEY Allah and Rasulullah
- PROHIBITS you to DISOBEY after you HEAR/know His order
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Sahih International
And do not be like those who say, “We have heard,” while they do not hear.
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What does Allah say here?
PROHIBIT you from being LIKE THEM
Who are ‘THEM’?
those who acknowledge His command (by saying, “we have heard”)
But Allah said, “They don’t hear”
What does it mean? They say “we heard”, Allah said, “they don’t”, what does this mean?
It means HEARING is OBEYING, ACTING on it. Literally, they heard it, but as for the IMPLICATION of hearing, it is OBEYING which they are not doing.
If you hear and say “I heard it” but you don’t ACT on it, if you know an order and say “I know it” but you don’t OBEY/ACT on it, to Allah that means you didn’t HEAR it. Is it clear from these 2 Ayat?
Do you understand the impact of this on your life? This Ayat should give you the CERTAIN knowledge and education for life. You now know the CERTAIN knowledge, what it means to HEAR.
SubhanAllah!
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Sahih International
Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason (do not think or use their intellect).
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And then this is the DECISIVE status with Allah Subhanahu Ta’ala about those people, they are WORST than even the tiniest insects that Allah created.
Why is that? Why are they said DEAF and DUMB? Can you do a critical reasoning of that?
INCAPABILITY OF REASONING BY NON-LIVING THINGS:
Let me use an easy example to understand it. You say something to a voice recorder, and the voice recorder hears it, so it records exactly what you said. But does it have any capability to act on what you said? Even you say, “Hey, I am going to smash you now”. Does it have the capability to realise the impact of it and then act on it?
What is the impact of realisation here?
It means it should realise, “I will be destroyed, and I won’t exist anymore.”
Implication?
It should make it sad, upset.
And then after the impact, it would act, “What can I do?”, ” How can I protect myself?”, “Can I request him not to destroy me?” Or “Shall I hide or run away?” Or “Shall I harm him before he destroys me?” and so on.
But the voice recorder has no ability to do any of these. It doesn’t realise the impact and can’t have the ability to act.
INCAPABILITY OF REASONING BY THE DEAF and DUMB:
Can a deaf and dumb person be able to do it? He doesn’t hear it in the first place, so how can he reason it?
The deaf are those who don’t have the hearing capability, so you say something to them, but they can’t hear, they don’t know what you say, therefore, they can’t act on it.
HUMAN REASONING:
Are we human beings like this?
NO way! If a person with a gun tells another person, “Hey, I will kill you now”, and he means it. What will the other person do?
He heard it.
He would try to understand, “Is it real?”, “Will this person really do what he said?”, “Is his gun real?”, “Why would he kill me?” and so on.
IMPACT: Then it will make him scared, make him terrified
ACTION: He will implore him not to kill him, he will argue with him, he will try to give him money to spare him, he will try to run away, he will try to attack him and so on.
See, that’s what humans are.
A human hears something, he processes the info to realise it, and then it impacts him, and then he acts on it. That’s how Allah made human beings. Allah gave the senses to a human being to hear, and then they have those other senses that understand and realise the meaning of what they heard; therefore, they must use all the senses. But how come an order of Allah doesn’t have an impact on those human beings?
The WORST of the CREATURES:
But Allah said they are the WORST of the creatures, which means worse than insects. Why? Because an insect is a living creature. How come a human being could be said below the level of an insect?
Important Note:
Allah didn’t say it is as ‘insect’, he said ‘creature’ and it could be any types of creatures in between bacteria (or anything tinniest than that which have some impact in our minds as tinniest of the creature) to Whale (largest creature we know) but I took it as ‘insect’ (those which has similar organs), why? Here is my explanation:
Because, psychologically, insects impact on our human mind. Many of us are insectophobic, many scare some insects to death, and many feel disgusted by some insects.
Now the COMPARISON, those humans were said “worse than all the living things.”
It’s very simple to understand. But we need to get some questions cleared from our minds to understand the simple thing.
Clearing the Arguments:
Every single type of creature has its own status, its own uniqueness. A creature can only be compared to its OWN TYPE, which is logical. But can we compare a bird and an ant, then grade a bird is better than an ant or vice versa? Or can we compare a fish and a bird and grade a bird is better than a fish or vice versa? No, we can’t. Because they are not the same type.
How come a creature (human) is then made degraded compared to another type of creature?
Allah gave us this comparison because He already said that humans are the best of the creations (so He already compared it), and he also knows that we also take other animals and insects as lowly. That’s why he made this comparison. And Allah knows best.
But why is the comparison between two different types in the first place?
Take all those creatures who have these organs and see if you can find any single one among them who does not use those organs and senses. You won’t find any. They act according to the capabilities and functions of those organs. But in a remote possibility, in case you find some animals or insects that do not really use those senses, then you might notice that it is a common nature among all of those animals or insects, you won’t find that a few do not use the senses.
And what’s the capability of those organs of a human being?
They are the best! In fact, these are the organs that make human beings DISTINCT from all other creatures, and these are the organs, their functions and capabilities that make a human being the best. And Allah knows best.
The LIVING CREATURES who do not have SENSES:
And then come even deeper. Are there living creatures who do not have those senses? SubhanAllah! Yes! Then what’s the point of a human being having those organs when you don’t use them? You are like those creatures who do not have those senses at all.
Therefore, is there any difference between those living creatures who do not have those organs and those human beings who have those organs but do not use them? No! They are the same in that context.
Why then Human ‘WORST’ instead of ‘similar’?
Allah should have said,
“Indeed, they are LIKE (similar to) those living creatures who do not have senses because they are deaf and dumb, who do not use reason.”
But Allah didn’t say that. He said, “They are worse”
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“Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason (do not think or use their intellect).”
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SubhanAllah!
And that’s totally psychological. Allah Ajja Wa Jalla mention it to have a psychological impact on us saying as if “these are the organs that make you best among all the creations, therefore, if you don’t use these then you become worst than those who do not even have those organs” and that’s how it makes sense. And Allah knows best.
Therefore, get your mindset right. Try to change yourself when you hear an order from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala and Rasulullah sallillahu alaihi wa sallam. Don’t let it go undone, unacted!
May Allah guide us.
May Allah give us beneficial knowledge.
May Allah make us among those who live by the ‘Dignity Being Human’
Ameen.
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