[1337] Their realization of the Truth of the Message (cf. Ibn al-Qayyim, ʿUddat al-Ṣābirīn, p. 186, al-Saʿdī, Ibn ʿĀshūr). They knew for sure that it was true but nonetheless they denied it all the same: “They denied them ˹the Signs˺, in their wickedness and their pride, even though their souls acknowledged them as true. See how those who spread corruption met their end!” (27: 14).