Dr. Hassan Abdel Hamid Watad, Professor and Head of the Department of Interpretation and Qur’anic Sciences at the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Al-Azhar University, confirmed that the beginning of the eighth part of Koran He draws attention to the nature of guidance and its relationship with human will, explaining that God Almighty’s saying: “Even if We sent down to them the angels and the dead spoke to them” does not only focus on the stubbornness of the polytheists, but rather reveals an established divine law that faith is a heart choice before it is a response to a physical sign.
While presenting the Qur’anic Nouraniyyat program on Sada El Balad channel, he said that the verses confirm that the accumulation of evidence does not produce guidance unless the heart is prepared to accept. The issue is not the abundance of miracles, but rather the sincerity of the inner orientation, pointing out that the Qur’an raises the believer to realize that guidance is a favor from God granted to whoever sincerely seeks it.
He explained that the eighth part also establishes the concept of individual responsibility, as neither coercion nor dazzlement replaces conviction, indicating that the heavenly messages did not come to force people to believe, but rather to open the doors of thought and contemplation, and thus the final decision remains stemming from human freedom and choice.
