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{ وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَطَمَسْنَا عَلَىٰ أَعْيُنِهِمْ فَٱسْتَبَقُواْ ٱلصِّرَاطَ فَأَنَّىٰ يُبْصِرُونَ }

If it had been Our will, We could have taken away their sight…He said:This means: ‘If We so willed We could gouge out the eyes of their hearts by which they perceived disbelief (kufr) and its path, so that they could only perceive Islam and nothing else.’ …but how would they have seen? the path of Islam if He did not do that.His words:

Tafsīr al-Tustarī, trans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler
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