37وَلَقَد راوَدوهُ عَن ضَيفِهِ فَطَمَسنا أَعيُنَهُم فَذوقوا عَذابي وَنُذُرِMuhammad Asadand even demanded that he give up his guests [to them]:1 whereupon We deprived them of their sight [and thus told them, as it were]:2 "Taste, then, the suffering which I inflict when My warnings are disregarded!"See 11:77-79 and the corresponding notes.According to Ibn 'Abbas (as quoted by Razi), the expression tams al-'ayn ("deprivation of sight") denotes here a "veiling [of something] from "one's consciousness" (hajb 'an al-idrak). Hence, the phrase tamasna a'yunahum may be understood to mean that God deprived them, in consequence of their evil propensities, of all moral insight (cf. 36:66 and the corresponding notes), and thus made them liable - as the sequence shows - to undergo bitter suffering in this world and in the next.