They offered the most precious essence (Jawhar) for a fleeting accident (‘Arad*),

and they clung to the dust instead of the Pleiades.

Up to his saying:

They did not distinguish between the Namer (al-Musammi) and His Name,

and they worshiped nothing but the mere form of the Name (Rasm al-Ism).

And similar to it is his saying in another poem:

He who does not know her except by her names

in the exoteric of books, claims a connection to her.

And He Almighty said in Surat al-A'raf, informing about them and refuting their interpretation:

{And the companions of the Fire will call to the companions of Paradise, "Pour upon us some water or from what God has provided you." They will say, "Indeed, God has forbidden them both to the disbelievers." [Those] who took their religion as distraction and amusement and whom the worldly life deluded. So today We will forget them as they forgot the meeting of this day of theirs and for having rejected Our verses.

And We had certainly brought them a Book which We detailed with knowledge—as guidance and mercy for a people who believe. Do they