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When Hearts Are Blinded, Blinkered or Biased

Sufyan b. ‘Uyaynah, one of the saintly scholars of early Islam, would frequently recite this following couplet: al-mar’u idha kana lahu fikrah/fa fi kulfi shay’in lahu ‘ibrah – ‘A person, if he is given to [frequent] contemplation / Will draw a valuable lesson from everything.’ This visual Quranic reflection highlights one verse of the Holy Qur’an which urges that we walk through life with a ‘seeing’ heart that ponders, reflects, sees the signs and learns the lessons.

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