الآية رقم (7) - خَتَمَ اللّهُ عَلَى قُلُوبِهمْ وَعَلَى سَمْعِهِمْ وَعَلَى أَبْصَارِهِمْ غِشَاوَةٌ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عظِيمٌ

(7) - “Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. And for them is a great punishment.”

However, why does the verse say heart and not mind? Can the heart comprehend?

This is because, the heart accepts everything that the mind comprehends, confirms it strongly, and fastens it. It therefore becomes a belief in the heart.

So, the mind will think according to what is conveyed to it through the senses. After it has made conclusions, believed and arrived at the facts, it will settle in the heart as the belief.

The mind is therefore a preface for the heart, as Allah U says,

﴾فَإِنَّهَا لا تَعْمَى الأَبْصَارُ وَلَكِنْ تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتِي فِي الصُّدُورِ﴿

“For indeed, it is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts.” [Surah Al-Hajj: 46].