Is it permissible to interpret the verses of the Qur'an according to what a person understands without referring to the exegeses?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the ruling on interpreting the verses of the Qur'an by their apparent meaning, that is, the meaning that everyone understands, without referring to the exegeses of the scholars?

Answer:
No, Professor, it is not permissible. The apparent matters, such as prayer, fasting, Paradise, the Fire, and the warnings, are fine for the common people to understand. But the legal rulings, what is lawful and what is forbidden, the specific and the general, the absolute and the qualified, and the abrogating and the abrogated, are known only by those firmly grounded in knowledge. It is not permissible to interpret the Qur'an absolutely like that. No. Yes, but the apparent things: when the mention of the Fire comes, you know, seeking refuge in Allah, when the mention of Paradise comes, you know what Paradise is, when the mention of righteous deeds comes, you know, when the mention of prayer comes, you know what prayer is. You do not go back to check the exegesis for prayer; the Muslims know that. There are things the common people know, there are things the scholars know, and there are things that only Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) knows. Yes.