22 Preface أَفَمَن شَرَحَ اللَّهُ صَدرَهُ لِلإِسلامِ فَهُوَ عَلىٰ نورٍ مِن رَبِّهِ ۚ فَوَيلٌ لِلقاسِيَةِ قُلوبُهُم مِن ذِكرِ اللَّهِ ۚ أُولٰئِكَ في ضَلالٍ مُبينٍYusuf AliIs one whose heart God has opened to Islam,1 so that he has received Enlightenment from God, (no better than one hard-hearted)? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against celebrating2 the praises of God. they are manifestly wandering (in error)!Those who listen to God’s Message find at each stage God’s Grace helping them more and more to expand their spiritual understanding and to receive God’s light, so that they travel farther and farther to their Goal in the Path of Truth and Righteousness. They are not to be compared to those who shut out God’s Light from their hearts. See next note.Just as there is spiritual progress for those who seek God, so there is more and more spiritual retrogression for those who close their hearts to God. Their hearts get hardened, and they allow less and less God’s Grace to penetrate within. But it is obvious that they flounder on the Way, and cannot walk with the firm steps of those of assured Faith.