Surah Hud, Verse 19/20

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 *Surah Hud, Verse 19:*

الَّذِينَ يَصُدُّونَ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَيَبْغُونَهَا عِوَجًا وَهُم بِالْآخِرَةِ هُمْ كَافِرُونَ

Those who hinder (others) from the Path of Allah (Islamic Monotheism), and seek a crookedness therein, while they are disbelievers in the Hereafter.

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*Surah Hud, Verse 20:*

أُولَٰئِكَ لَمْ يَكُونُوا مُعْجِزِينَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَمَا كَانَ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَوْلِيَاءَ يُضَاعَفُ لَهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مَا كَانُوا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ السَّمْعَ وَمَا كَانُوا يُبْصِرُونَ

By no means will they escape (from Allah's Torment) on earth, nor have they protectors besides Allah! Their torment will be doubled! They could not bear to hear (the preachers of the truth) and they used not to see (the truth because of their severe aversin, inspite of the fact that they had the sense of hearing and sight).

#COMMENTARY

Compared chapter vii, verse 38. In this context, it is implied that they committed a two-fold wrong: 

1. Inventing falsehood against ALLĀH, which deadened their own soul, and

2. In leading others astray or hindering them from ALLĀH's path. Thus they lost the faculty of hearing, which they might have used to hear the Word of ALLĀH (Sub-haanahu wata'aala), and they blinded the faculty of sight by shutting out ALLĀH's Light.