The group of disbelievers is likened to the blind and the deaf, while the group of believers is likened to the seeing and the hearing. Mahmoud said: "The group of disbelievers is likened to the blind and the deaf, and the group of believers to the seeing and the hearing, up to His saying that the waw..." Ahmad said: "Unlike it in the first aspect, for it is for the conjunction of the described to the described. As for the comparison of the verse to the comparison of Imru' al-Qais in that he made two comparisons, there is a consideration in it. For Imru' al-Qais likened each of the fresh and the dry with a single comparison, while the verse in the first interpretation likened each of the disbeliever and the believer with two comparisons. One may look at the verse of Imru' al-Qais in the second aspect, as it implies that each of them is likened with a single comparison, but in multiple attributes. The matter in that is close, and Allah knows best." It is from the wrapping and the antithesis. It has two meanings: that the group is likened with two comparisons, as Imru' al-Qais likened the hearts of birds to the husk and the jujube, and that it is likened to that which combines blindness and deafness, or that which combines sight and hearing. As for the waw in وَالْأَصَمِّ and وَالسَّمِيعِ, it is for the conjunction of the attribute to the attribute, like His saying: "the morning, then the victorious, then the returning." Is it that the two groups are equal in a likeness of a comparison?