[2:81] Not so; whoever earns evil and is encompassed by his transgression - those are the inhabitants of the Fire, therein abiding (khālidūn).
The one who is encompassed by his transgression is the disbeliever in the language of scholars. But the allusion in it is to one whose heart has ceased its perpetual calling for help. The possessors of realities are like grain in the frying pan in their moments of wakefulness (ṣaḥw). Those [of them] who have become still are thus because of His excessive majesty, not because they are listless.
Whoever relies on obedience seeks favor from it and thinks that he is drawing near by it, but he should be keeping his distance from this. Whoever has realized the declaration of oneness knows that there is no means to Him except through Him.