The one who calls to cattle

What it means

When the disbelievers are called to faith, their likeness is that of animals hearing their herdsman: they catch the voice but not the meaning, deaf, dumb and blind to it (2:171).

As-Sa'di explains that they hear enough for the proof to stand against them, but not with an understanding that benefits them: they do not hear the truth to accept it, look at it to learn from it, or speak what would do them good. Rejecting good counsel and choosing ruin, he says, is the height of folly, however clever one may be in worldly things.

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