. Introduction Not every soul that returns... returns with light. While the Qur'an often speaks of the soul's return to Allah as a hopeful homecoming, it also documents a tragic phenomenon: those who forget how to return. These are not merely disbelievers or the ignorant. They are people who once had access to hikmah (wisdom), fitrah (primordial purity), and the signs of Allah—but chose to bury them under the weight of their own desires, arrogance, and heedlessness. In this blog, we’ll walk through the anatomy of these lost souls—those whose hearts, eyes, and ears were created to guide them back to their Rabb, but ended up locked in self-worship, spiritual blindness, and eternal regret. Each verse of the Qur'an we reflect on here is a warning, a mirror, and a sorrowful testimony. 1. Surah Al-Jathiyah (45:23) — When Desires Become a God "Have you seen the one who takes his own desire as his god, and Allah leaves him astray despite knowledge, seals his hearing and heart,...