These are the five fingers, and they are the five persons of the Name (Ashkhas al-Ism al-Khamsa).

And to them He pointed in this place; so whosoever knows them and seeks their knowledge connects with the angels and becomes an angel.

The devils represented by the scholars of the adversaries (Ulama' Al-A'dad), The mirage.

I say: The verse indicated that the devils—symbolized by the scholars of the Opposites (Al-Addad)—inspire those who lean toward them to dispute with us with their corrupt sciences; and He mentioned that those who obey them are polytheists, so that we may avoid them.

And He—the Almighty—warned us by His saying: {And is one who was dead and We gave him life} (Al-An'am: 122), so that we may deduce that he who follows the Light—which is the Inward knowledge—is superior to the one who remains in the darknesses, which are the Outward sciences.

God has struck the parable of their deeds in Surah An-Nur, after He—Glory be to Him—struck for us the famous parable of His manifest Light, which is clear to those who behold it, saying: {But those who disbelieved—their deeds are like a mirage in a lowland which a thirsty one considers water until, when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing but finds Allah before him, and He will pay him in full his due; and Allah is swift in account.