Lo the religion dīn with God is submission islām [to the One God]. Religion dīn: The [religion] that He is pleased with and the one whose follower He has determined to reward elevate and favor is submission islām. Submission islām is sincerity ikhlāṣ and the surrender of one- self istislām. Anything else is rejected mardūd and the path to salvation for its follower is blocked masdūd. Those who were given the scripture differed only after the knowledge came to them through transgression among themselves. And whoever disbe- lieves in God's signs God is swift in reckoning. Knowledge ʿilm came to them which was a proof ḥujja incumbent upon them-not [the deeper] knowledge maʿrifa which would be clear evi- dence bayān and a path maḥajja for them. They persisted in denial juḥūd because they were veiled from the place of witnessing shuhūd.
