From first to last his mind could hold them from revolt.
Whatever name he gave, that name endured unchanged.
If he said: “This thing’s active,” slothful it ne’er ranged.
He knew at first who was believer in God’s word.
He from the first, too, knew the miscreant toward his Lord.355
From one who knows them well, of things seek thou the fames,
And mystery of the symbol: “God taught him the names.”[169]
The name of everything, with us, is what it seems;
With God, the name of everything, what He it deems.
By Moses was his staff a simple rod proclaimed;