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PT. 19 CH. 25 AL-FURQAN we not steadily adhered to them. ” And they shall know, when they عَلَيْهَا وَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ حِيْنَ يَرَوْنَ الْعَذَابَ مَنْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا see the punishment, who is most astray from the right path. أَرَعَيْتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلَهَهُ هَومَهُ أَفَأَنْتَ Hast thou seen him who. 44 تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ وَكِيلًا takes his own evil desire for his god? Couldst thou then be a guardian over him?2676 أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ Dost thou think that most of. 45 إِلَّا كَالْأَنْعَامِ them hear or understand? "They يَعْقِلُونَ إِنْ هُم are but like cattle-nay, they are هُمُ أَضَلُّ سَبِيْلاة further astray from the path. 2677 2676. Commentary: "45:24. b7:180. proper use of these God-given It is not only the worship of idols of faculties to see light, and instead wood and stone and those in the form of human beings that is condemned here. In fact it is his own desires, fancies and pre-conceived ideas, more than anything else, that man adores and it is these things that stand in the way of his accepting the truth. Intellectually man may have advanced far enough so as not to bow before stones and stars but he has not outgrown the worship of his false ideals, prejudices and pre-conceived ideas. It is these idols that lie enthroned in man's heart whose worship is condemned here. 2677. Commentary: The verse purports to say that when in spite of his being endowed with the faculties of intellect and hearing which should help him to recognize and realize truth, man refuses to make 2320 chooses to grope in darkness, he comes down to the level of cattle, even lower than that, because cattle are not given the gift of discretion and discrimination while man is. The verse also implies an allusion to the great reformation brought about by the Holy Prophet in the lives of his people. They were no better than animals and beasts. They worshipped images and held foolish and superstitious ideas. They gambled and drank and indulged in extreme sexual excesses and depleted and destroyed their manhood by fighting for generations about trivialities. They had no idea of moral virtues or at best had a very low concept of them and did not know economics or statecraft. Such were the people among whom the Holy Prophet Muḥammad was raised and history bears witness to the fact that