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wa-ʾammā lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun fa-zādathum rijsan ʾilā rijsihim wa-mātū wa-hum kāfirūna
But as for those in whose heart is a sickness, it only adds defilement to their defilement, and they die while they are faithless.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah At-Tawbah – Verse 125
125 . “And as for those in whose hearts is a sickness, it (only) adds filth to their filth, and they die while they are infidels.”
If a corpse falls inside a pool, whatever much rain it rains upon it, it will become more malodorous. This bad smell is not because of the rain, but it is because of that corpse. When there is the mood of obstinacy and haughtiness in a person, it causes that, by the revelation of the verses of the Qur’ān, those in whose hearts is disease will become more haughty, and will show a more amount of obstinacy, bigotry and enmity from themselves. This status is a kind of sickness in them like the sicknesses of the body. If we do not think of a remedy for it, it will expand so much so that may it destroy the person.
The verse says: