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               mentioned in the Quran and                they have normal hearing:
               Ahadith.                                  They have hearts wherewith
                  The Quran extols the wise,             they understand not, they
               the  thoughtful,  and  those              have eyes wherewith they

               who  ponder  over  their                  see  not,  and  they  have
               affairs: (Ref: Quran, 8: 29)              ears wherewith they hear
                  “It  is  only  people  of              not (the truth). They are
                  understanding who heed”.               like cattle, nay even more

                  (Quran, 13:19)                         astray;  those!  They  are
                                                         the     heedless      ones”.
                  The Holy Quran condemns                (Quran, 7: 179)

               those who refuse to use this              -  “The  blind  and  the
               precious gift, it says:                   seeing are not the same.
                  - “They will say: If only              Nor  are  those  who

                  we  had  really  listened              believe and do right, the
                  and  used  our  reason                 same      as    evildoers”.
                  (minds),  we  would  not               (Quran, 40: 58)
                  have been companions of

                  the Blaze”. (Quran, 67:10)             Therefore,  even  if  there
                  -  “There  are  those               were no prophets sent, God
                  people  who  are  blind  to         would      still    have     an

                  the  truth  because  they           argument  in  the  form  of
                  refuse  to  see  it  despite        rationality. Imam Kadhim says:
                  the  fact  that  they  have            God has two arguments,

                  normal eyesight, and refuse            the  apparent  and  the
                  to  hear  despite  the  fact           hidden.  The  apparent
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