Hearts, sealed

Has it not become clear to those who inherited the earth after its [previous] people that if We willed, We could afflict them for their sins? But We seal over their hearts so they do not hear.¹

Those cities - We relate to you, [O Muḥammad], some of their news. And certainly did their messengers come to them with clear proofs, but they were not to believe in that which they had denied before.¹ Thus does Allāh seal over the hearts of the disbelievers.

Those who dispute concerning the signs of Allāh without an authority¹ having come to them - great is hatred [of them] in the sight of Allāh and in the sight of those who have believed. Thus does Allāh seal over every heart [belonging to] an arrogant tyrant.

And among them, [O Muḥammad], are those who listen to you, until when they depart from you, they say to those who were given knowledge,¹ "What has he said just now?" Those are the ones of whom Allāh has sealed over their hearts and who have followed their [own] desires.

That is because they believed, and then they disbelieved; so their hearts were sealed over, and they do not understand.