Kufr as concealment of the truth

Sha'rawi holds that kufr means concealment: the disbeliever conceals God's existence, and a concealment presupposes something that exists. Faith is therefore the original state, and heedlessness came after it. ¹

Sha'rawi notes that God taught Adam the names and had the angels prostrate before him before disbelief appeared, and that heedlessness came later and turned disbelief into a concealment of the truth. God's question in Al-Baqara 28, "how do you disbelieve in God?", is an argument from the existence He gave. ^{1 2}

This is Sha'rawi's reading and is attributed to him. It rests on his linguistic argument; no academic view on the meaning of kufr is given in the scan and none has been checked.