The Example of the Hypocrites

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
Allah likened the hypocrites when they bought deviation with guidance, thus acquiring utter blindness, to the example of a person who started a fire. When the fire was lit, and illuminated the surrounding area, the
person benefited from it and felt safe. Then the fire was suddenly extinguished. T
herefore, total darkness covered this person, and he became unable to see anything or find his way out of it. Further, this
person could not hear or speak and became so blind that even if there were light, he would not be able to see. This is why he cannot return to the state that he was in before this happened to him. Such is the case
with the hypocrites who preferred misguidance over guidance, deviation over righteousness. This parable indicates that the hypocrites first believed, then disbelieved, just as Allah stated in other parts of the Qur'an.

Allah's statement,

Their condition may be described in a parable: A man kindled a fire and
when it illuminated all around him, Allah took away the light from their eyes and left them in utter darkness, where they could not see anything.*

They are deaf; they are dumb; they are blind*so they will not return (to the right way).
(Noble Qur'an: Surah Al-Baqarah~ Ayah 17-18)

Explaination
*The parable means that when a person, Muhammad (Allah's peace be upon
him), spread the light of Truth that discriminated right from wrong and virtue from vice, those who used their faculties properly began to distinguish between these things.
But the hypocrites, who were blinded by self-interest, could not see the right path
even with the help of this light.
"Allah took away the light from their eyes" should not cause one the misunderstanding that the responsibility of
not seeing the truth did not lie on them.

Allah deprives of the sight only him who is not himself a seeker after truth, who chooses error for himself instead of guidance, who shuts his eyes to the truth. When they themselves turned away from the light of truth and chose to wander only in the darkness of falsehood, Allah also let them go astray. 
They are.. "Deaf" to hear the Truth, "Dumb" to speak the Truth and "Blind" to see the Truth