إِنَّمَا يَسْتَجِيبُ الَّذِينَ يَسْمَعُونَ ...

6: 36. Those who listen (in truth), be sure, will accept:

C857. There is a double meaning here.

- If people listen to truth sincerely and earnestly, they must believe; even if the spiritual faculty is dead, Allah will by His grace revive it and they will come to Him, if they really try earnestly to understand.

- The sincere will believe; but those whose hearts are dead will not listen, yet they cannot escape being brought to the Judgement Seat before Him.

... وَالْمَوْتَى يَبْعَثُهُمُ اللّهُ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ يُرْجَعُونَ ﴿٣٦﴾

as to the dead, Allah will raise them up: then will they be turned unto Him.

قُلْ أَرَأَيْتُكُم إِنْ أَتَاكُمْ عَذَابُ اللّهِ أَوْ أَتَتْكُمُ السَّاعَةُ...

6: 40. Say:

"Think ye to yourselves, if there come upon you the wrath of Allah, or the hour (that ye dread),

...أَغَيْرَ اللّهِ تَدْعُونَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ ﴿٤٠﴾

would ye then call upon other than Allah?

(Reply) if ye are truthful!"

بَلْ إِيَّاهُ تَدْعُونَ فَيَكْشِفُ مَا تَدْعُونَ إِلَيْهِ إِنْ شَاء...

6: 41. "Nay, On Him would ye call,

and if it be His Will, He would remove (the distress) which occasioned your call upon Him,

...وَتَنسَوْنَ مَا تُشْرِكُونَ ﴿٤١﴾

and ye would forget (the false gods) which ye join with Him!"

وَكَذَلِكَ نُوَلِّي بَعْضَ الظَّالِمِينَ بَعْضًا بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكْسِبُونَ ﴿١٢٩﴾

6: 129. Thus do We make the wrongdoers turn to each other, because of what they earn.

C952. See n. 950 above.

Evil consorts with evil because of their mutual bargains. But in doing so they save the righteous from further temptation.

6: 39 And they who give the lie to Our messages are deaf and dumb, in darkness deep. Whomever God wills, he lets go astray; and whomever He wills, he places upon a straight way.

6: 40 Say: “ Can you yourselves invoking any but God when God’s chastisement befalls you or the Last Hour comes upon you?” [Tell me this] if you are truthful.

6; 41 Nay, but it is Him alone that you will invoke – whereupon He may, if He so wills, remove that which caused you to call unto Him; and you will have forgotten all that to which you ascribe divinity side by side with Him.”

6: 125 and whomever God wills to guide, his bosom He opens wide with willingness towards self-surrender [unto Him]; and whomsoever He wills to let go astray, his bosom He causes to be tight and constricted, as if he were climbing unto the skies: it is thus that God inflicts horror upon those who will not believe.

6: 129 And in this manner do We cause evildoers to seduce one another by means of their doings.

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