Those who steer clear of [the worship of] false deities…He said:Evil (ṭāghūt) is the world, its root is ignorance (jahl), its branch is what is eaten and drunk, its adornment is hubris (tafākhur), its fruits are transgressions (maʿāṣī) and [in] its scales [of recompense] (mīzān) are severity (qaswa) and punishment (ʿuqūba). His words: