111 We found you, as We found most men, worshipping names which they mention during the days of their life, and with which they occupy themselves.  No sooner do the Bearers of these names appear, however, than they repudiate them, and turn upon their heels.  Thus have We found you, and thus have We reckoned up your actions and borne witness to all your doings in this day.  Know ye that God will not, in this day, accept your thoughts, nor your remembrance of Him, nor your turning towards Him, nor your devotions, nor your vigilance, unless ye be made new in the estimation of this Servant, could ye but perceive it.

112 By God!  The Tree of vicegerency hath been planted, the Point of knowledge hath been made plain, and the sovereignty of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, hath been established.  Fear ye the Lord.  Follow not the promptings of your evil desires, but keep the law of God all your days.  Renew the rules of the ways ye follow, that ye may be led by the light of guidance and may hasten in the path of the True One.

113 O ye wise men of the City and philosophers of the world!  Beware lest human learning and wisdom cause you to wax proud before God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.  Know ye that true wisdom is to fear God, to know Him, and to recognize His Manifestations.  This wisdom, however, can be attained only by those who detach themselves from the world, and who walk in the ways of the good pleasure of their Lord.  Are ye possessed of greater wisdom than the one who contrived a moon which would rise from one well and set in another, and whose light was visible at a distance of three leagues?(109) God, verily, blotted out every trace of his works and returned him unto dust, as ye have already heard or are now informed.

114 How many the sages and philosophers who equalled or surpassed him in learning and wisdom!  And how vast the number of those who equalled or surpassed yourselves!  Some of them believed in God, while others disbelieved and joined partners with Him.  The latter were at last cast into the Fire, there to take up their abode, while the former returned unto the mercy of their Lord, therein to abide.  For God doth not ask you of your sciences, but of your faith and of your conduct.  Are ye greater in wisdom than the One Who brought you into being, Who fashioned the heavens and all that they contain, the earth and all that dwell upon it?  Gracious God!  True wisdom is His.  All creation and its empire are His.  He bestoweth His wisdom upon whomsoever He chooseth amongst men, and withholdeth it from whomsoever He desireth.  He, in truth, is the Bestower and the Withholder, and He, verily, is the All-Bountiful, the All-Wise.