Types of Ta'wil

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, into how many categories is ta'wil (figurative interpretation) divided? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Ta'wil, the decree of the two sacred sanctuaries, the Sunnah, the honorable one. It is divided into categories. Ta'wil in the sense of interpretation (tafsir). Ta'wil in the sense of interpretation, this is a correct meaning, and this is the path Ibn Jarir followed in his exegesis, saying "the statement regarding the interpretation of the saying of Allah the Exalted," meaning interpretation. The second meaning is diverting the wording from the stronger probability to the weaker probability, and this is among the later scholars. This is the innovated ta'wil in which they distorted the names and attributes from their correct meanings to incorrect meanings. This is the condemned ta'wil.
And there is a third type of ta'wil, which is what a thing ends up being in the end, what a thing ends up being, and "none knows its interpretation except Allah," meaning what a thing ends up being in the future. He said, "This is its interpretation," from before, he made it perhaps. This is what a thing ends up being in the future, and this is not known except by Allah Mighty and Majestic, because the future and what happens in it is not known except by Allah Mighty and Majestic.
So ta'wil is in three categories. What a thing ends up being in the future, and this is not known except by Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). The second is the interpretation of speech, and this is correct. The third is diverting the wording from its apparent meaning to another meaning, and this is the condemned ta'wil that the Mu'tazilah, the Asha'irah, and those like them arranged regarding the interpretation of the attributes from their indicated meaning.