002.016 Y: These are they who have bartered Guidance for error: But their traffic is profitless, and they have lost true direction,
P: These are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, so their commerce doth not prosper, neither are they guided.
S: These are they who buy error for the right direction, so their bargain shall bring no gain, nor are they the followers of the right direction.
002.017 Y: Their similitude is that of a man who kindled a fire; when it lighted all around him, Allah took away their light and left them in utter darkness. So they could not see.
P: Their likeness is as the likeness of one who kindleth fire, and when it sheddeth its light around him Allah taketh away their light and leaveth them in darkness, where they cannot see,
S: Their parable is like the parable of one who kindled a fire but when it had illumined all around him, Allah took away their light, and left them in utter darkness—they do not see.
002.018 Y: Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not return (to the path).
P: Deaf, dumb and blind; and they return not.
S: Deaf, dumb (and) blind, so they will not turn back.
002.019 Y: Or (another similitude) is that of a rain-laden cloud from the sky: In it are zones of darkness, and thunder and lightning: They press their fingers in their ears to keep out the stunning thunder-clap, the while they are in terror of death. But Allah is ever round the rejecters of Faith!