Say: 'In the bounty of God, that is, in His facilitating the reception at the three stations, and in His mercy, in the bestowals relating to character traits, knowledge and unveilings at the three levels let them concern themselves; and if they are to rejoice, in that let them rejoice, and not in transient matters that amount to little and are of lowly worth and weight: it is better than what they hoard', in the way of vile corrupt things and evanescent degrading things from among the sum total of the ephemera [of this world], if they are truly folk of knowledge and perspicacity and possessors of esteem and aspirations.