Reconciling the two verses: “And We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf” and “Their gaze will not return to them”
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: How do we reconcile Allah the Exalted's saying[Al-Isra 17:97] with His saying [Ibrahim 14:43]? He asks: How can blindness be in the first verse, while in the second it is evidence for the existence of sight?
Answer:
My brother, the Hereafter consists of states and situations; states and situations, not a single situation. So each state remains as it was described: there is a state in which they speak and ask, and a state in which they do not speak, for their mouths are sealed. The Hereafter has states that involve changes. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: How do we reconcile Allah the Exalted's saying
and We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection [fallen] on their faces - blind, dumb and deaf
وَنَحْشُرُهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ عُمْيًا وَبُكْمًا وَصُمًّاtheir glance does not come back to them
لَا يَرْتَدُّ إِلَيْهِمْ طَرْفُهُمْAnswer:
My brother, the Hereafter consists of states and situations; states and situations, not a single situation. So each state remains as it was described: there is a state in which they speak and ask, and a state in which they do not speak, for their mouths are sealed. The Hereafter has states that involve changes. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [897- 4717] الجمع بين الآيتين﴿ونحشرهم يوم القيامة على وجوههم عميا وبكما وصما﴾ و﴿لا يرتد إليهم طرفهم﴾ — youtube.com
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