Blindness is different from blindness in the ruling, unless the blindness gives darkness, so there is no difference between it and blindness. If it goes beyond the limit of darkness to the point of blindness, then the condition of its owner may be better than the condition of the person with the darkness and than the condition of the blind. Some of them said to Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and between us and you is a veil. And it is the concealment, so work. Indeed, we are working, i.e. work, in removing that. Their saying, “We are working in removing that,” is plausible with regard to those whose truth is presumed to be true for them. They admitted that their hearts were hidden in what he was calling them to, but they did not deny his saying, nor did they reject it, as others believed who did not say that. I do not know what the matter ended with. These people are in my place of hope, for we know with certainty that the Messenger is working to lift the veil