Intermediate الحجج Surah: Al-Anam (50)

Verse: "Say: I do not tell you that I have the depositories of Allah, nor do I know the unseen, nor do I tell you that I am an angel. I only follow what is revealed to me. Say: Are the blind and the seeing equal? Then will you not reflect?" (Al-An'am 50)

Context:

• The polytheists and some Qurayshi leaders told the Prophet (peace be upon him): Show us the angels, or bring us the treasuries of the earth — otherwise we will not believe in you
• The verse is a Quranic reply: the Prophet does not claim lordship or absolute knowledge of the unseen — he is a human who follows revelation only
• "Are the blind and the seeing equal?" is a parable: the blind is one whose heart is blind and cannot see the Quranic clarity; the seeing is one who opens their heart to the evident signs
• The verse is in the context of debating polytheists who demand miracles not to believe but to test

Lesson:
Miracles do not produce faith in a closed heart — a blind person given temporary sight who closes their eyes gains nothing from seeing. The verse does not reject evidence but clarifies that faith is a state of the heart before it is a result of evidence.

Source: Al-Tabari (11/314); Ibn Kathir (3/243); Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi (p. 163)

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