In answer to the video "No Compulsion in Religion"
Just as the strengthening of one's heart and belief is attributed to Allah because He established and allowed the laws of causality leading to such positive outcome. A pattern of righteous behavior will increase one's spiritual receptivity
8:10-11,10:57,18:13-14,19:76,48:4,47:17"And (as for) those who follow the right direction, He increases them in guidance and gives them their guarding (against evil)".Similarily, the sealing/death of the (spiritual) senses is attributed to Allah because it exists with His will and established laws of causality. If a person willfully and repeatedly makes the wrong moral, spiritual choices then this will cause a gradual degradation of spiritual receptivity, just like physical death naturaly comes as a result of repeatedly mutilating one's self. We are made of the physical body and the spiritual body; both can die at our own hands and at any moment if we indulge in certain behavior. Just as physical death ends the capacity to nurture the dead body, spiritual death ends the capacity to nurture the soul and purify it
"He will indeed be successful who purifies it, And he will indeed fail who corrupts it".
At that point, the person's moral values are turned upside down
7:146"I will turn away from My communications those who are unjustly proud in the earth; and if they see every sign they will not believe in It; and if they see the way of rectitude they do not take It for a way, and if they see the way of error they take it for a way; this is because they rejected Our communications and were heedless of them".The straight path, that of righteousness becomes as if crooked to them as stated by the prophet Hosea
Hos14:10"Who is wise and will understand these, discerning and will know them; for the ways of the Lord are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them, and the rebellious shall stumble on them".The way of sin appears smooth, and apealing as stated by David and Solomon
Ps36:2-3,Prov16:25,14:12,2:13-15"those who forsake the ways of uprightness, to go on ways of darkness, those who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perversity of evil who are crooked in their ways and perverse in their paths..There is a way [that is] straight in a man's view, but its end is ways of death".It becomes even an abomination for them to turn away from transgression and reform themselves, while seeing the righteous acting with uprightness is repulsive to them Prov13:19,29:27. The disruption of their moral compass makes them think that their behavior is justified in the name of "freedom" while they are in fact slaves to their condition
45:23"Have you seen he who has taken as his god his [own] desire, and Allah has sent him astray due to knowledge and has set a seal upon his hearing and his heart and put over his vision a veil? So who will guide him after Allah ? Then will you not be reminded?"Their senses of spiritual perception become so corrupted that despite being shown and clearly explained the signs supporting the highier divine realities, signs present all around and even inside of man 2:115,12:105,31:20 they keep ignoring and denying
5:71,16:36"So there were some of them whom Allah guided and there were others against whom error was due (haqqat alayhi aldalaal or "against whom a verdict of error became inevitable")".At that point, the guidance, the multifarious evidence for the truth and light of spiritual uprightness is still present all around them yet they are now blind to it and unable to perceive it in any way
2:17"Their parable is like the parable of one who kindled a fire, but when it had illumined all around him, Allah took away their light, and left them in utter darkness-- they do not see".That is in contrast with the God-conscious, whose spirituality is nurtured and developed to an extent that he remains alert to evil and corruption and whenever he slips, immidiately remembers God and turns back on his feet 6:122,7:201,47:17,57:28.
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