The argument has now turned from light, towards darkness; and again to the believers who prosper, and to the non-believers who are afflicted in utter darknesses, for rejecting the light of reality and truth.

      The word revolves around a poor thirsty, and meanwhile ignorant traveller in a wide desert, who is in need of a glass of cold water, but actually goes after a mirage:ِ

      ``As to the non-believers, their deeds are such as a mirage....''

      The man, dying of thirst, sees the mirage as a lake of standing water; but when he comes to it, finds nothing there!

      In fact, we have a metaphor here to show us that; he who rejects faith and ignores the light of God, he will be led to utter darknesses.

      Darkness is not an entity by itself. It rather is the absence or the nullity of light. Darkness is falsehood, and light is the truth. Then the state of a person who refuses to use the light of truth, is somehow the like of a thirsty man, who runs after water in a hot and barren desert; from a distance he sees the mirage which seems to him like a lake; in which water stands glittering. When he rushes on, and comes near; he finds nothing at all! Thirst is the truth which is still with him, and the illusory things which are like mirages which he has worked for, will lead him to his destruction. He has to die of thirst, because power, wealth, and luxuries, will not satisfy the spiritual thirst of Man. So, anyone who leaves light and lives in the darkness, he deserves all sorts of afflictions and misfortune.