for a substitute that is more precious than his owned merchandise or better than the price at which he purchased it. As for the one who exchanges his merchandise for a substitute inferior to it and inferior to the price at which he purchased it (1), he is undoubtedly the loser in his transaction. Likewise are the disbeliever and the hypocrite, because they chose confusion and blindness over guidance and right direction, and fear and dread over protection and security; and in the immediate worldly life, they exchanged right direction for confusion, guidance for error, protection for fear, and security for dread—along with what He has prepared for them in the hereafter of painful punishment and severe torment. Thus they failed and lost; that indeed is the manifest loss.

And according to what we have said regarding that, Qatāda used to say.

385- Bishr ibn Muʿādh narrated to us, saying: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from Qatāda, {So their transaction did not profit