Al-Isra 72: Those who are blind on this earth are also blind in the hereafter. And they have completely gone astray.
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Those who are blind on this earth are also blind in the hereafter. And they have completely gone astray.
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There are people who are blind in this world, but as long as they are believers in Allah and the Hereafter, their eyes will be open in the Hereafter and they will receive the mercy of Allah.
There are also people who, although their eyes are open and they can see their surroundings, they cannot see the Truth. Their ability to see the Truth has been blunted. These are the truly blind. Otherwise, those who are blind due to a bodily condition, their blindness is temporary in the transient mortal world. But those whose eyes in their bodies are open but who see, because they deny Allah against the Truth, and who are deprived of the ability to see the Truth, cannot see the straight path of Allah (swt). They are blind in this world and blind in the Hereafter.
Such people are those who have lost their way in this world. Allah (swt) says about them in the Hereafter. (He who is blind in this world is blind in the Hereafter, and he has gone astray). If we pay a little more attention to this verse, the meaning of the word "blind" in the Hereafter for such people is that even though they are being held to account by Allah (swt) on that day of reckoning, they still do not recognize that Allah (swt) is the One who created them and Allah (swt) is the One who holds people to account. As we have explained in the previous verses, they are waiting for the Allah of their imagination, thinking that the Allah of their imagination will save them and punish the one who decides between people (i.e. Allah (swt)). If a person believed in his heart that Allah is the Creator, the One who holds him to account, and if he could submit to Allah (swt), the souls of these people would be perfected and they would be saved from torment. In that case, He would not have subjected them to hell and torment. They would have been saved from blindness. Because Allah always treats people with mercy. However, on that day of reckoning, even though they will be called to account, if they still cannot believe in Allah, if they imagine Allah in their own imagination and do not believe in Allah in their hearts, they will be astray in the middle of the straight path. In that case, the last opportunity will be lost. Allah (swt) says, "And they have gone astray", indicating that their souls will never again find contentment and perfection. He says that these people are the ones who, by their own decision, are destined for torment, because they are the ones who have failed to take the last opportunity with their nature and have chosen a deviant path in the Hereafter.
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To Surah Al-Isra, verse 72, we have come. Whoever is blind in this world is blind in the hereafter too. Moreover, he has gone utterly astray. See how beautifully it says it. Does a blind man set out on the road? Only with a guide. He goes with a stick, or with a dog, or with a guide. Does he set out on the road? The man does not know where he is going. See, "moreover, he has gone utterly astray," it says. Who loses his way? If the guide that Allah sent (?), we remove; or rather, in a way we will understand, let me put it like this. We entered a city. They handed us all the roads and maps of the city.
Whichever road, avenue, street we are going to, for us the routes are shown on that map. Like today's navigation device. It is in your hand and you know how to use it. Because your mind is such that it can use it. Because Allah sent His verses so as to address every mind. So if you drop the navigation, if you throw the map in your hand that shows the roads aside too, would you not of course end up like the bewildered, wandering people who do not know where to go? It is quite simple. The verses, I mean, show people the way. Yes. Whoever is blind in this world is blind in the hereafter too. What does it say? "Moreover, he has gone utterly astray," it says.
Now, does this resemble the writing of commentators who copy from one another? This commentary of ours stands apart from all those 32 or 33 commentaries that have been written. Yes. This commentary is not a copy of this one or that one. People who take directly from the Truth and give to the Truth, give to the people. These are writings that give to the people. Writings that take from the Truth and give to the people.
Among those blind in this world there are people who believe in Allah and the hereafter. Yes.
These people, since they are people who believe in the Truth, as long as they are believers, will have open eyes in the realm of the hereafter, and they will attain Allah's mercy. If Allah made a person's eyes blind in this world, in the realm of spirits that person's eyes are not blind. Here, creating various people in various ways, according to the covenant they gave in the realm of the hereafter, He brings people into the worldly realm. According to the verse (?), they long ago consented to that state of theirs, and are people facing their Lord with their own inner world, or people living out their denial within their own inner world.
For example, He shows him from there, while making the covenant: in this world, at what time, how will you go? "Let me not see anything there at all. Let me come like that, go like that," he says. So he comes and goes in a way that he does not see. Everything has a covenant. So their eyes will be open, and they will attain Allah's mercy. Those (?) who know Allah in this world, as long as they say "Allah". And there are also people who, although their eyes are open and they see around them, do not see the truth. Their ability to see the truth has withered. Because he denied the Messenger and (?) the Lord.
That denial has been written for him as his destiny. These are the true blind. If you do not know, and interpret the verse some way: blind in the world, blind in the hereafter too, if you say that, Allah protect us, you ascribe attributes to Allah. You put your finger on places you do not know.
Their ability to see the truth has withered. These are the true blind. Otherwise, for those whose eyes are blind from some bodily ailment, in the passing, transient world the blindness of their eyes is temporary too. But those whose bodily eyes are open and who see, yet, because they deny Allah in the face of the truth, are deprived of the ability to see the truth, do not see Allah Almighty's straight path. These are blind both in this world and in the realm of the hereafter they are blind. Why, Hodja? When they believe in Allah, since they see in the hereafter, can they truly not escape blindness? They cannot. Why?
Because their wishes and desires have settled in them as character. If Allah does not will it, no one can change his destiny by his own will either. And since Allah will not lift anyone's will from him and use His own will over that person, since He leaves everyone free in their own will and writes their wishes and desires for them as destiny, they too, now, in the realm of the hereafter: their saying "We have seen, send us back to the world once more" is in fact only talk; they are still blind, and do not truly believe in Allah; wretched people who think they will deceive Allah. Is there proof for what you say?
As I said just now, even when they enter Hell they will still wait for the Lord of their own imagination, and will say to Malik: O Malik, tell your Lord to lighten for us the punishment a little. Because the Lord of their imagination, the Allah they wait for, will come, a god will come, they will take revenge on Allah: this feeling keeps them living there eternally blind. In one verse Allah Almighty says: if only they had known Me here. Had they known Me here. Yes. They cannot return.
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Such people are people who lost their way while in the worldly realm. Allah Almighty says this about them for the realm of the hereafter too: Whoever is blind in the world is blind in the hereafter too. Moreover, he has gone utterly astray. If we pay a little more attention to this verse: in the realm of the hereafter, addressing such people, the meaning of His saying "moreover, he has gone utterly astray" is that these people, on that Day of Reckoning, although they are called to account by Allah Almighty, still do not accept that the Allah who created them is the very Allah who calls people to account. As we explained in the earlier verses, since each is waiting for the Allah of his own imagination, thinking the Allah of their imagination will save them, they think He will also punish the one who judges among people, that is, Allah Almighty.
If a person had believed with his heart that Allah, since He calls him to account, is the one who created him, if he had been able to submit to Allah Almighty, these people's nafs would reach perfection, they would be saved from punishment. Then He would not leave them exposed to Hell and punishment. They too would have been freed from blindness. Yes.
Because Allah always treats people with mercy. But if a person, although called to account on this Day of Reckoning, still, not believing in Allah, imagines the Allah of his own imagination, if they do not believe in Allah with their hearts, they will be lost in the middle of a straight road. Yes.
What are we saying? So in this case even the last chance slips from their hands. By Allah Almighty saying "moreover, he has gone utterly astray", He declares that these people's nafs will never again find contentment and perfection. Since these are those who could not make use of the chances they had, even the last chance, and who chose a deviant path in the realm of the hereafter too, these people are those who by their own decision seek punishment, declares Allah Almighty. No one can look for any deficiency in Allah Almighty.