When the blind man was miraculously restored to sight, the scales dropped from his eyes at the Divine pleasure.

Think'st thou that any earthly leech could have removed them?
No.

Such mediciner might have tormented the patient with his instruments, or perhaps soothed him with his balsams and cordials, but dark as he was must the darkened man have remained; and it is even so with the blindness of the understanding.

If there be those among the Franks who, for the sake of worldly lucre, have assumed the turban of the Prophet, and followed the laws of Islam, with their own consciences be the blame.

Themselves sought out the bait; it was not flung to them by the Soldan.