9 Preface وَهُوَ يَخشىٰYusuf AliAnd with fear (in his heart),1The fear in the blind man’s heart may have been twofold. (1) He was humble and God-fearing, not arrogant and self-sufficient: (2) being poor and blind, he feared to intrude: yet his earnest desire to learn the Qur-ān made him bold, and he came, perhaps unseasonably, but was yet worthy of encouragement, because of the purity of his heart.