Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "It is He who has revealed to you the Book; in it are clear verses, which are the foundation of the Book, and others are ambiguous"

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the interpretation of the saying of the Exalted:

Answer:
Yes, it is clear that the ambiguous verses are those whose meaning is not clear in themselves, but rather they are referred to other proofs that interpret and clarify them. So the clear (muhkam) is that which has a clear meaning, and the ambiguous (mutashabih) is that whose meaning is not clear except by referring it to another proof that interprets and clarifies it. So the scholars of knowledge do this; they refer the ambiguous to the clear and interpret the ambiguous with the clear. As for the people of deviation, they take the ambiguous and leave the clear in order to mislead people seeking fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and they say, "We are using the Qur'an as evidence." We say, "You have lied; you did not use the Qur'an as evidence. The Qur'an commands referring the ambiguous to the clear, and you did not act upon this, so you did not use the Qur'an as evidence." Yes, so it is necessary to refer the ambiguous to the clear. Yes.