Selections from the Holy Quran

Turning away from the remembrance of God causes the life of this world to become straitened and dark, and brings about blindness of heart in this world and the Hereafter.

وَ مَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْ ذِكْري فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعيشَةً ضَنْكاً وَ نَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيامَةِ أَعْمى [124] قالَ رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرْتَني أَعْمى وَ قَدْ كُنْتُ بَصيراً [125] قالَ كَذلِكَ أَتَتْكَ آياتُنا فَنَسيتَها وَ كَذلِكَ الْيَوْمَ تُنْسى [126]

    سورة طه المبارکة

    “But whoever turns away from My remembrance – indeed, he will have a depressed [i.e., difficult] life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind.” (124)

    “He will say, ‘My Lord, why have You raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?’” (125)

    “[Allah] will say, ‘Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus will you this Day be forgotten.’” (126)

    (Surah Ta-Ha Verses 124 to126)