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How hearing they are and seeing, they are (these two constructions [are used to] express 'amazement', meaning, 'how well they [will] hear and how well they [will] see') on the Day when they come to Us, in the Hereafter. Yet the evildoers (an example of a proper noun ['evildoers'] replacing a third person pronominalisation)⁶ today, that is, in this world, are in manifest error, that is, [error] that is evident therein, having been deaf [unable] to listen to the truth and blind [unable] to see it. In other words, [the meaning is]: O you, the one being addressed, marvel at how [well] they will [be able to] hear and see in the Hereafter after they had been deaf and blind in this world.