45:23
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Dynamic translation
(45:23) Have you seen the one who took his fancy as his god, and Allah led him astray, despite his knowledge, and He sealed his hearing and his heart, and He made a veil on his eyes? Who then can guide him after Allah? Will you not remember?
Arabic text
(15:9) إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ
Connected ideas
(2:7) Allah (put) a stamp on their hearts, and on their ears, and on their sight - a guise. And to them is great suffer.
(15:14-15) If We opened for them a gate in the sky and they were to continue ascending to it, They would have said, "Our eyes are hallucinating. No, we are a people who are being bewitched!"
Quotes
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
