23- THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND DO GOOD DEEDS AND ARE CONTENTED
WITH THEIR LORD, THEY ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE PARADISE, WHERE THEY ABIDE FOREVER.
24- THE EXAMPLE OF THE TWO GROUPS IS THAT OF THE
BLIND AND DEAF; AND HE WHO SEES AND HE WHO HEARS, ARE THEY THE SAME?DO YOU NOT THINK?
Allah the Highest is
telling us about three characteristics of those who enter the Paradise; they do
so through Allah’s Mercy:
1-Believing, that
is to believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Hereafter
and Fate, good and bad.
2-To do good
deeds.Belief has to be confirmed by
righteous acts, which are the expressions of the Faith in the Heart.
3-To be contented
with our Lord, His commands, and Fate.Also good deeds should not lead to pride and arrogance.
Obeying Allah the Highest and doing what he commands us to do
and what pleases Allah the Highest.All
such deeds should be done with humility, and should never be the cause of pride
or arrogance.No one should ever think
that he is better than another by virtue of worship or obedience of our Lord,
for Allah the Highest only knows what is in our hearts, and only He accepts or
rejects our deeds.Iblis thought himself
better than Adam by virtues of the material he was created from, as Allah the
Highest said: “HE (ALLAH) SAID: “WHAT IS IT THAT
PREVENTED YOU FROM PROSTRATING AS I COMMANDED YOU?”HE (IBLIS) SAID: “I AM BETTER THAN HIM; YOU
CREATED ME FROM FIRE AND CREATED HIM FROM CLAY”.(S:7 A:12)
Allah the Highest created us with eyesight and hearing which
are to see and hear in order to comprehend what we see and hear, and in order
to make sense of and understand the creation around us.Those who see and hear without comprehending
are no better than the blind and deaf.It is not our eyes that lose their sight, but the hearts that lose their
comprehension.Allah the Highest said: “AND WE HAVE CREATED FOR THE HELL-FIRE MANY JINN AND
HUMANS, THEY HAVE HEARTS, THEY DO NOT COMPREHEND WITH, AND HAVE EYES, THEY DO
SEE WITH, THEY ARE LIKE CATTLE, BUT THEY ARE EVEN MORE MISGUIDED, THEY ARE
THOSE WHO IGNORE THE RIGHT GUIDANCE”.(S:7
A:179)
And said: “DID THEY NOT WALK
THROUGH THE EARTH, AND THEY HAVE HEARTS TO COMPREHEND WITH, OR EARS TO HEAR
WITH, IT IS NOT THE HEARTS THAT ARE BLINDED, BUT BLINDED ARE THE HEARTS THAT
ARE IN THE CHESTS”.(S:22
A:46)
Hearing, vision and comprehension are the instruments and
faculties Allah the Highest has given to us to use, and when we do not use them
properly, it will be as if we do not have them.
There are great signs of Allah’s presence and creation in us,
plus all that is around us on Earth and the Universe.We should look carefully at all that and
reflect, and find The Great Creator.We
do not in fact need any more signs or miracles from the prophets and messengers
peace upon them, for we are surrounded with miracles.
