The Quran

Preface

أَفَرَأَيتَ مَنِ اتَّخَذَ إِلٰهَهُ هَواهُ وَأَضَلَّهُ اللَّهُ عَلىٰ عِلمٍ وَخَتَمَ عَلىٰ سَمعِهِ وَقَلبِهِ وَجَعَلَ عَلىٰ بَصَرِهِ غِشاوَةً فَمَن يَهديهِ مِن بَعدِ اللَّهِ ۚ أَفَلا تَذَكَّرونَ

Yusuf Ali

Then seest thou such¹ a one as takes as his god his own vain desire? God has, knowing (him as such), left him astray, and sealed² his hearing and his heart (and understanding), and put a cover on his sight. Who, then, will guide him after God (has withdrawn Guidance)? Will ye not then receive admonition?

If a man follows, not the laws of God, which are also the laws of his own pure nature as made by God, but the desires of his own distorted self, as shaped by the rebellion of his will, the inevitable consequence will be the withdrawal of God’s grace and guidance. All his faculties will then be debased, and there will be nothing to guide him, unless he turns in repentance again to God.
Cf. 2:7 and notes.