disbelievers— [51] 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. [52] And We had certainly brought them a Book which We detailed with knowledge as guidance and mercy for a people who believe. [53] Do they await except its interpretation (Ta’wil)? The Day its interpretation (Ta’wil) comes, those who had ignored it before will say, "The messengers of our Lord had come with the truth, so are there [now] any intercessors to intercede for us or could we be sent back to do other than what we used to do?" They will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they used to invent.} (Al-A‘raf: 46 - 53).

It has been mentioned in the books of exegesis (Tafsir) that Al-A‘raf is a wall between Paradise and the Fire, and that He—the Almighty—named the surah in which it is mentioned "Surah Al-A‘raf" to further draw attention to the meaning of this name. The Almighty informed us therein about the people of Paradise and the Fire, their calling and their dialogues, so that we may know the attainment of the people of Paradise—who are the people of this Inward religion (Al-Din al-Batin)—and the lack of attainment of the people of the Fire—who are the people of these corrupt outward schools (Al-Madhahib al-Zahira); and God knows best what is correct.

The Almighty has forbidden us from following the inclinations (Ahwa') of the adherents of the outward religious laws and commanded