then are born and die repeatedly and again, I would have doubted the soundness of his intellect. But now, I doubt the soundness of the intellect of him who says other than this statement. But how was this feeling generated within me? When I read with scrutiny the answer of the Master Christ, His Might is magnified, to his disciples when they brought him a child blind from birth and asked him, 'O Teacher, did this [man] sin, or his parents, that he was born blind?' So he said: 'Neither this [man] sinned nor his parents, but that the works of Allah should be made manifest in him.

Naimy continues, saying: Since the disciples believed that disabilities and calamities are a just retribution for those upon whom they fall and for those who share life with them—that it is their thoughts and intentions reflected back upon them—they became confused when they wanted to apply this law to the child born blind, who had not sown any deeds necessitating the disability of blindness, but rather the parents were the sowers.