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The following was revealed regarding Abū Jahl and others: Why, is he who was dead, through unbelief, and We gave him life, through guidance, and appointed for him a light by which to walk among people, distinguishing thereby the truth from falsehood - this [light] being faith - as him whose likeness (ka-man mathaluhu: mathal, 'likeness', is extra; in other words, [read] ka-man huwa, 'as him who') is in darkness whence he cannot emerge? - and this is the disbeliever - No! So, in the same way that faith has been adorned for believers, what the disbelievers have been doing, in the way of disbelief and acts of disobedience, has been adorned for them.