al-Fusūs (The Bezels), said in the section on Noah:

“‘And they devised a tremendous plot’ (22) [Noah 22]. For calling people to Allah is a plot against the person being called, since He was never absent at the beginning that He should be called to as the ultimate goal. ‘I call upon Allah’—this is the very essence of plotting—‘with insight.’ Thus he drew attention to the fact that the whole affair belongs to Him. They therefore answered him with a plot, just as he had called them through a plot.

“Then the Muhammadan came and recognized that calling people to Allah concerns not His very being, but rather His names. Thus he said: ‘On the Day We gather the God-fearing to the Most Merciful as a delegation’ (85) [Mary 85]. He thus used the preposition indicating a destination and linked it to the name. We thereby learned that creation was encompassed by a divine name that required them to be God-fearing.

“So they said, as part of their plotting: ‘Never abandon your gods, and never abandon Wadd, Suwā‘, Yaghūth, Ya‘ūq, or Nasr’ (23) [Noah 23]. For if they abandoned them, they would become ignorant of the Real to the extent that they abandoned these objects of worship. For the Real has an aspect in every object of worship: those among the Muhammadans who know it know it, and those who do not remain ignorant of it.

“‘Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him’ [al-Isrā’ 23]—that is, He has ruled. Thus the one who knows knows whom he has worshipped, and in what