73وَالَّذينَ إِذا ذُكِّروا بِآياتِ رَبِّهِم لَم يَخِرّوا عَلَيها صُمًّا وَعُميانًاMuhammad Asadand who, whenever they are reminded of their Sustainer's messages, do not throw themselves upon them [as if] deaf and blind;1Explaining this verse, Zamakhshari remarks that whereas the average run of people approach the divine writ with a mere outward show of eagerness, "throwing themselves upon it" for the sake of appearances but, in reality, not making the least attempt to understand the message as such and, hence, remaining deaf and blind to its contents - the truly God-conscious are deeply desirous of understanding it, and therefore "listen to it with wide-awake ears and look into it with seeing eyes".