upon their faculties of observation - optical faculty

  • Allah the Exalted has put the epilogue-sealed the wraps upon their hearts-intellectual consciousness and upon their faculty of listening - acoustic faculty.

  • And note, a veil extends upon their faculties of observation - optical faculty.

  • Be mindful, a grave torment is in waitprepared for them [on the Day of Resurrection]. [2:07]

Syntactic analysis and explanation of Ayah

:: Prepositional phrase coupled with Possessive phrase: Separable preposition + Noun: Definite by construct; broken Plural; feminine; Genitive +  possessive pronoun: Third Person; Plural; Masculine; Genitive state. It relates to elided predicate of the inverted nominal sentence.

Recurrence: (1)2:7=1 Without repetition of the preposition, it also occurs after conjunction particle in ayah 16:108

  • They the rejecters are the people, Allah the Exalted has sealed the wraps upon their hearts-intellectual consciousness, and upon their faculty of listening and their faculties of observation;

  • And they are truly the people who are willfully, heedlessly negligent. [16:108]

 

  • Realize it; Allah the Exalted brought you people out of the bellies of your respective mothers in a state that you were not aware of matter: something possessing dimensions, material realities.

  • Moreover, He the Exalted have rendered for you people the listening - acoustic faculty; and the observing - optical faculty; and of Processing-Integrating-Perceiving: Baking establishment: the Brains.

  • This realization might enable you people to express praises-thanks. [16:78] [let us respond الحمد لله

Principal word of these phrases:  plural of stems from Root: ب ص ر. Classical Lexicons state that it signifies stirring - stimulating by the sense of eye that yields knowledge-mental perception.

Eyes are sensory organ while the basic perception signified by the Root is mental perception, the perspective faculty of heart and brain. Sense of sight is signified by Root: ن ظ ر  and when eyes - fovea are focused on object and mental perception - mental picture is obtained it is the domain of Root: ب ص ر.  Mental perception can also be obtained independently of sight by eyes. Therefore, it also signifies enlightenment.

The difference between seeing - looking (ن ظ ر) and observing, vision -  mental perception - enlightenment embedded in Root: ب ص ر is rendered explicit in Grand Qur'aan by contrasts:

  • Moreover, You the Messenger [Muhammad Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam] find them that they are looking towards you while they are not observing. [Refer 7:198]

  • And the Blind and the Man of Vision equate not reciprocally[Refer 35:19; 40:58]

The equation in not literal between a physically blind person - visual impairment but between blindness and enlightenment. A blind man could be an enlightened person.

  • Is it for reason that they have not yet traversed in the world - land [seeing archeological evidence of past history]

  • Whereby the hearts may become such that they could with it reflect to differentiate - draw conclusion;

  • Or ears become such that with them they could truly listen [the facts of past being narrated to them].

  • [they do not respond] Thereby, the fact is that it were not "the vision: neurological signals stored in memory after interpretation of the image seen" that become blind but it are the hearts, which are in the chests, that become blin.  [to recall/retrieve/again see the stored fact]. [22:46]


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