Sam Shamoun "Some Grammatical Mistakes of the Quran" (3)

Sam Shamoun "Some Grammatical Mistakes of the Quran" (3)

In 2:16-20,6:46,36:66-67 Allah speaks of those who have consciously "bought" error instead of guidance as having done so while putting 

"their fingers into their ears because of the thunder peal, for fear of death...The lightning almost takes away their sight; whenever it shines on them they walk in it.."

In the parable, the thunder is the light of divine guidance. Their spiritual receptivity is so weak that it almost blinds their senses. They timidly attempt to explore it, by cautiously putting "their fingers into their ears" and veiling their eyes. This shows that they originally turn away their spiritual senses before the seal/death of those senses by God 

"if Allah had pleased He would certainly have taken away their hearing and their sight". 

The implication of the statement is that He does not will their immediate punishment. They bring this fate upon their own selves, although their spirituality is still somewhat receptive and are given opportunities to mend their ways 

36:66"And if We please We would certainly put out their eyes, then they would run about groping for the way, but how should they see?" 10:42-4"And there are those of them who hear you, but can you make the deaf to hear though they will not understand? And there are those of them who look at you, but can you show the way to the blind though they will not see? Surely Allah does not do any injustice to men, but men are unjust to themselves". 

But because of Allah's system of freewill in matters of faith, the people will be left to make good or bad use of their spiritual receptivity without compulsion 

6:104"Indeed there have come to you clear proofs from your Lord; whoever will therefore see, it is for his own soul and whoever will be blind, it shall be against himself" 46:26"and We had given them ears and eyes and hearts, but neither their ears, nor their eyes, nor their hearts availed them aught". 

The parable in 2:16-20 is similar to the aforementioned one of the thunder. The similitude of this group of disbelievers, having the prophet in their midst, is like when one  istawqada/builds up and intensifies a fire in the pitch of dark. That one is the prophet of God. The light of this fire eventually becomes so intense that it illuminates all around it and yet God takes it away from them, throwing them back in the darkness they were in. The image of God taking the light of guidance away is a consequence of them choosing to reject it.