And whoever was among them in this abode blind, meaning: misguided, acts in deeds like that of the blind. In taking matters, he does not find guidance in taking what benefits him and leaving what harms him. He does not distinguish between good and evil. So he is in the Hereafter, because everyone will be judged according to what he died upon, blind, meaning: more blind than he was in this abode. He will not succeed in his intention, nor will he find guidance to what is correct, nor is he able to read a book due to what is in it of the causes of punishment. And it was not said: 'more blind,' as they say in the necessary attributes of one state of blindness, redness, and blackness, and the like. This is because this refers to the blindness of the heart, which is characterized by increasing and occurring at every moment, something after something. Thus, it contradicts what does not increase. And Abu Amr did not incline it with the inclination of the first, to indicate that its meaning is: 'more than such and such.' So it is a middle state, and the inclination is only good in the endings. And because this is its meaning, he added to it His saying, the Exalted: 'And more astray in the way.' This is because this abode is the abode of earning and advancement by means, while that one has nothing of that. The verse is from the intertwining: it established the giving by the right hand and the reading first, as evidence for the omission of their opposites second. And it established blindness second, as evidence for the omission of its opposite first.