Oh God! Surely you know that whatever we did was not a competition to gain worldly positions and not for the worthless physical attractions of the world. But to show the signs of religious ways and to remove corruption from your lands, so that the oppressed feel secured and act according to your traditions and rules.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Oh God! Surely you know that whatever we did was not a competition to gain worldly positions and not for the worthless physical attractions of the world. But to show the signs of religious ways and to remove corruption from your lands, so that the oppressed feel secured and act according to your traditions and rules." in the context of "Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 239" to mean that wisdom is timeless.