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Some Secrets of the Qur'an: There is Light in Believers' Faces, but Disgrace in Those of Disbelievers

Contents
  1. Introduction
  2. God Answers Everyone's Prayers
  3. God Increases His Blessings on Those Who are Grateful
  4. Secrets of Submission to One's Fate and Putting One's Trust in God
  5. There is Good in Every Event
  6. There is Surely Ease with Every Difficulty
  7. God Obscures the Comprehension of Disbelievers
  8. God Bestows Understanding on Those Who Fear Him
  9. Those Who Do Good Meet Goodness
  10. There is Light in Believers' Faces, but Disgrace in Those of Disbelievers
  11. The Secret that God Erases Bad Actions
  12. Divine Purposes in Spending in God's Way
  13. The Effect of Good Actions and Good Words
  14. God Certainly Helps Those Who Help His Religion
  15. Quarrelling Causes Loss of Strength
  16. Only in the Remembrance of God Do Hearts Find Satisfaction
  17. The Cunning of Satan is Weak
  18. Obeying the Majority Misleads Man from the Right Path
  19. Secrets in the Expansion and Diminishing of Blessings
  20. Obedience to the Messenger is Obedience to God
  21. A Small Group of Believers Can Overcome a Vast Majority of Disbelievers
  22. God Makes His Religion Supreme When One Worships Him Alone
  23. The Life of the World is in Fact Very Brief
  24. God Casts Dread into the Hearts of Disbelievers
  25. Wisdom and Decisive Speaking are Blessings from God
  26. Man Will Also Account for His Thoughts and Intentions
  27. It is God Who Places Love in People's Hearts
  28. The Deaths of Disbelievers and Believers Will Not be the Same
  29. Prayer Keeps Man Away from Evil
  30. Those Who are Killed in the Way of God are Not Dead
  31. God is the Giver of Honour
  32. Secrets of Finding the Straight Path
  33. Man's Inner Self Commands Evil Acts
  34. Secrets of Abundance and the Wealth Given to People
  35. The Secret of Why God Does Not Immediately Punish the Disbelievers
  36. Conclusion

One of the secrets that God reveals in the Qur'an is that belief and disbelief are reflected on people's faces and skins. In many verses, God informs that there is light on believers' faces, whereas there is disgrace on disbelievers':

And you will see them brought forward to it (hell) made humble by disgrace, looking with a stealthy glance...

Surat ash-Shura: 45

Those who do good will have the best and more! Neither dust nor debasement will cover their faces. They are the Companions of the Garden, remaining in it timelessly, forever. But as for those who have earned bad actions - a bad action will be repaid with one the like of it. Debasement will overshadow them. They will have no one to protect them from God. It is as if their faces were covered with a strip of darkest night. Those are the Companions of the Fire, remaining in it timelessly, forever.

Surah Yunus: 26-27

As stated in these verses, disbelievers' faces are shadowed by debasement. On the other hand, believers have light on their faces. God states that they are recognised by the traces of prostration on their faces:

Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and those who are with him are fierce to the disbelievers, merciful to one another. You see them bowing and prostrating, seeking God's good favour and His pleasure. Their mark is on their faces, the traces of prostration...

Surat al-Fath: 29

In other verses, God informs that disbelievers and evildoers are recognised by their faces:

The evildoers will be recognised by their mark and seized by their forelocks and their feet.

Surat arRahman: 41

If We wished, We would show them to you and you would know them by their mark and know them by their ambivalent speech. God knows your actions.

Surah Muhammad: 30

It is a miracle and an important secret revealed in the Qur'an that, depending on one's faith or evildoing, physical changes occur on one's face. Spiritual feelings produce physical effects on body; although the contour remains the same, the expression of the face changes or the face is lightened or overshadowed. A man of faith, can, by the Will of God, see this miracle God performs on people.