God will mock at them, and keep them in their exceeding wickedness, wandering about in perplexity.
These are they who have purchased error in exchange for right guidance: but their traffic hath not been profitable; and they have not been rightly guided.
Their likeness is as the likeness of those who have kindled a fire in the dark, and when it hath enlightened what is around them, God taketh away their light and leaveth them in darkness, seeing not.
They are deaf, dumb, blind: therefore they will not turn back.
Or they are like people in a storm of rain from heaven, wherein are darkness and thunder and lightning: they put their fingers in their ears because of the vehement sounds of the thunder, for fear of death. And God encompasseth the unbelievers.
The lightning almost snatcheth away their eyes: whenever it shineth on them they walk in the light of it, but when darkness cometh on them they stand still. And if God pleased He would certainly take away their ears and eyes: for God is all-powerful.
(ii. 7-19.)
LXXXV.
O ye who have believed, take not the Jews and Christians as friends. They are friends one to another; and whosoever of you taketh them as his friends, verily he is of the number of them.
O ye who have believed, take not as friends those who have made your religion a laughing-stock and a jest, of those who have received the Scripture before you, and the unbelievers: (But fear God if ye be believers:)