we had empowered them in the same way as we empowered you and we gave them the hearing and the sight and the minds. but neither their hearing nor their sight nor their minds availed them in any way. that is because they disregarded the revelations of god and so they became surrounded by what they used to ridicule.
ولقد مكناهم فيما إن مكناكم فيه وجعلنا لهم سمعا وأبصارا وأفئدة فما أغنى عنهم سمعهم ولا أبصارهم ولا أفئدتهم من شيء إذ كانوا يجحدون بآيات الله وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون