They have lost something in it, so they turn to God to remove it. It is from that truth that is hidden in them, in a state in which there is no physical compulsion in that sense, that they attain these secrets, even if they are wretched. Their attainment of them increases their misery, since they recognized the one in whose hand is power, and they turned away from it and worked for other things. They set him up as a god with their own hands and the hands of someone of their kind, and his inability appeared to them, and they persisted in their wrongdoing, as God Almighty said: “In their transgression they become blind.”