7وَإِذا تُتلىٰ عَلَيهِ آياتُنا وَلّىٰ مُستَكبِرًا كَأَن لَم يَسمَعها كَأَنَّ في أُذُنَيهِ وَقرًا ۖ فَبَشِّرهُ بِعَذابٍ أَليمٍMuhammad AsadFor, whenever Our messages are conveyed to such a one, he turns away in his arrogance1 as though he had not heard them - as though there were deafness in his ears: give him, then, the tiding of grievous suffering [in the life to come].Cf. 23: 66~7.