In this regard the Qur'an says...

In this regard the Qur'an says: "On the day that Allah will raise them up all, then they will swear to Him as they swear to you, and they think that they have something; now surely they are the liars." [^2] Regarding this holy verse, Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali (as) in a tradition has said that after this lie, their lips will be sealed and their other limbs will tell the truth. Thus, in the court of Allah*,* neither telling a lie is helpful, nor an oath.

"See how they (the polytheists) lie against their own selves, and that which they were forging has passed away from them." Hence, the polytheists will dislike their own thoughts and creeds on the Hereafter Day, when they will say: "... we were not polytheists '. " However, on the Hereafter Day, surely hating polytheism will not be helpful.

"And of them there are some who hearken to you, and We have laid veils upon their hearts lest they understand it, and in their ears a heaviness; and (even) if they see every sign they will not believe in it, so that when they come to you they dispute with you, those who disbelieve say: 'This is naught but the legends of the ancients'." In this verse, the psychological conditions of some of the pagans are hinted to.

They do not usually show the least inclination from themselves when they are told the facts. They not only do not show inclination, but also oppose these facts hostilely, and, by means of calumny, they keep themselves and others aloof from them.

Concerning these people, the Qur'an says: "And of them there are some who hearken to you, and We have laid veils upon their hearts lest they understand it, and in their ears a heaviness....." Indeed, attributing such matters to Allah relates to 'the law of causation' and the property of 'action'. That is, the result of continuation in doing wrong and insisting on obstinacy is that it turns the soul and self of the person into its own nature.

Experience has proved this fact that, at first, evil-doers feel inconvenience with their own evil action. But little by little, they will be accustomed to it, so that there may come some day that they count doing their evil actions obligatory.