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When we ask that our hearing and sight be our heirs, what exactly are we asking for?
اللهم صل على محمد و آل محمد و متعنا بأسماعنا و أبصارنا و اجعلهما الوارثین منا فإنه لا حول و لا قوه إلا بک
That our hearing and sight be our heirs means asking that they remain sound and with us until the moment of death. It also means using these faculties in ways that please God, so that they produce nothing but beauty and goodness, and their worth and standing are elevated. This inheritance may also allude to the enduring good deeds one leaves behind, or to the faculties themselves bearing witness to our good deeds on the Day of Resurrection.
1. That hearing and sight should become one’s inheritance implies a plea for them to endure and remain sound: until the day of death, a person is in effect asking the Merciful God not to take these faculties away before that moment.
2. To benefit from hearing and sight, and then to inherit them, can mean bringing honour and credit to these faculties. One makes such beautiful use of these divine gifts in the pursuit of God’s pleasure that they are known for nothing but beauty, goodness and righteous action; through that person, their hearing and sight gain dignity and distinction. In the record of their deeds of hearing and sight, nothing but beauty is inscribed.
3. When a person makes good use of hearing and sight, they raise their worth, standing and value—as though, through that person, these faculties had gained immense spiritual wealth.
For a person, inheriting them may mean that they bear witness to their good deeds on the Day of Witnesses.
It may also allude to the person’s enduring good works, made possible through the use of hearing and sight.
Hearing and sight may also allude to the Noble Recorders!
One may also regard the friends of God as one’s hearing and sight!
God knows; He is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
One may include all one’s faculties in the supplication!
اللهم متعنا بأسماعنا و أبصارنا و قوتنا ما أحییتنا و اجعله الوارث منا