The Creator (Fatir)
Verses 19-26 GROUP_1134 35.19-26
19
وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْأَعْمَى وَالْبَصِيرُ
The blind and the sighted are not equal,
20
وَلَا الظُّلُمَاتُ وَلَا النُّورُ
nor are the darkness and the light;
21
وَلَا الظِّلُّ وَلَا الْحَرُورُ
shade and heat are not alike,
22
وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْأَحْيَاء وَلَا الْأَمْوَاتُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُسْمِعُ مَن يَشَاء وَمَا أَنتَ بِمُسْمِعٍ مَّن فِي الْقُبُورِ
nor are the living and the dead. God causes whom He will to hear Him, but you cannot make those who are in their graves hear you.
23
إِنْ أَنتَ إِلَّا نَذِيرٌ
You are but a warner—
24
إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا وَإِن مِّنْ أُمَّةٍ إِلَّا خلَا فِيهَا نَذِيرٌ
We have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner—there is no community to which a warner has not come.
25
وَإِن يُكَذِّبُوكَ فَقَدْ كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ جَاءتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ وَبِالزُّبُرِ وَبِالْكِتَابِ الْمُنِيرِ
If they reject you, so did their predecessors. Messengers came to them with clear signs, with scriptures, and with the enlightening Book,
26
ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ
but in the end I seized those who were bent on denying the truth and how terrible was My punishment.
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Commentary
(a) It is a fact that the expectations one has of light are not applicable to darkness. What one gets from the shade cannot be derived from sunlight. The same is the case with man. Among human beings, some have vision and some are blind. A man with eyes immediately sees his way and recognizes it. But one who is blind will simply go on groping in the dark. Similarly, with regard to insight there are two types of people, —one consisting of the living and the other consisting of the dead. The living man is one who sees things in depth—who tears apart the deceptive veil of words and grasps hidden meanings—who goes beyond superficial matters and tries to understand the inner reality—who assesses intrinsic values and not outward appearances—whose eyes are concentrated on real facts and not on irrelevant hair-splitting theories—who, after knowing the Truth, submits to it—he is the one who is alive. He is one who has been fortunate enough in this world to accept the Truth. Those whose behaviour is the very reverse of this are dead. They never come anywhere near accepting the Truth in this world of trial. They remain deaf to the call for Truth, until after death, when they go to God to face the result of their blindness.