81 Preface بَلىٰ مَن كَسَبَ سَيِّئَةً وَأَحاطَت بِهِ خَطيئَتُهُ فَأُولٰئِكَ أَصحابُ النّارِ ۖ هُم فيها خالِدونَYusuf AliNay, those who seek gain1 in evil, and are girt round by their sins,- they are companions of the Fire: Therein shall they abide (For ever). This is many degrees worse than merely falling into evil; it is going out to “earn evil,” as the Arabic text has it, i.e., to seek gain in evil. Such a perverse attitude means that the moral and spiritual fortress erected around us by the Grace of God is voluntarily surrendered by us and demolished by Evil, which erects its own fortress, so that access to Good may be more and more difficult.