Al-Jaathiya (Crouching)

20. This [Qur’an] is a clear insight and evidence for mankind and guidance and mercy for people who have faith with certainty.

Piety is supposed to serve as the basis of insight. Qur’an is the basis of insight in all intellectual, ethical, political, social, economic, and family domains. The demonstrative pronoun hadha apparently refers to the Qur’an and enumerates three Qur’anic merits in the blessed Verse in question.

Firstly, the Holy Qur’an is vision. In the same manner as the eye of the head makes seeing objects and colors possible, the Holy Qur’an is the eye of the heart through which knowledge finds its way to the heart.

One who ponders a while on Qur’anic Verses, the light meant by the Infallible Imam (as):

(“Knowledge is the light shed by Allah on the heart of whoever He wills from among His servants”)

illuminates his heart and shows him the path of deliverance from the shadows of ignorance to the light of knowledge and wisdom. Secondly, the Qur’an is Guidance toward the path of felicity and the Guide to the path of deliverance.

It is by following the Qur’anic teachings that one may leave the way of err and tread on the straight path. Thirdly, the Holy Qur’an is Divine Mercy bestowed on the faithful through following Its Injunctions and Instructions Divine Mercy, Forgiveness, and Bounty will be granted to them. Such merits and virtues belong to those who act upon Qur’anic Verses through certainty and meditation.