Exegesis of the verse: ((It is He who has revealed to you the Book. Of it are clear verses, which are the mother of the Book, and others are ambiguous...)).

Then Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said: The pronoun refers to . Reflect here on the connection between the verses, each linked to the other. Since Allah (Mighty and Majestic) mentioned that He is the Fashioner and that creation is a beginning, He mentioned after that the revelation of the Book, by which guidance is obtained, such as: . Sometimes Allah clarifies the religious blessing first, and sometimes He clarifies the worldly blessing first. So here, the Fashioning is where Allah began, then He mentioned the revelation of the Qur'an, but mentions the teaching of the Qur'an before the creation of man. Then He said: , and by this is meant the Qur'an. The meaning of it being a Book has preceded: that it is written in the Preserved Tablet, in the scrolls in the hands of the angels, and in the scrolls in our hands. Then Allah divided this Book and said: , meaning, and of it are others . Here it is necessary for us to say: "and of it are others" to complete the division. His saying: . "Ayat" is the plural of "ayah," which is a sign. Every ayah in the Qur'an is a sign for its place of revelation due to its inimitability and challenge. And His saying: means perfected in indication, ruling, and report. That is, their reports and rulings are perfected and known, with no ambiguity in them. means that their rulings are not known or their reports are not known. So the clear (muhkam) is that which is perfected in indication, whether it is a report or a ruling. The ambiguous (mutashabih) is that whose indication is not clear, whether it is a report or a ruling. Then He said: . He placed the description of these clear verses and the clarification of these first, so that the first thing that comes to mind is that the ambiguous ones are referred back to the clear ones, because they are the mother. And the mother of a thing is its reference point and its origin. Allah the Exalted said: , meaning the reference point, which is the Preserved Tablet to which all writings return. And from this, al-Fatihah is called the mother of the Book because the reference point of the Qur'an is to it. So these clear verses must be the ones to which the ambiguous ones are referred, to these clear verses. Allah the Exalted said: . Ambiguous in what? In indication, whether it is a ruling or a report. For this reason, we find that some verses do not indicate explicitly the ruling by which they are used as evidence, and some verses are also reports that do not indicate explicitly the report by which they are used as evidence. So what do we do? He said: . People are divided into two groups regarding these ambiguous verses: a group that follows the ambiguous ones and clings to them before people, presenting them to people, saying: how is such and such, how is such and such. And another group . And since everything is from our Lord, it cannot contradict and it cannot be mixed, but it is unified and in agreement. So the ambiguous from it is referred back to the clear, and the whole becomes clear. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: . "Zaygh" means deviation. From this comes their saying: "The sun deviated" when it leans away from the zenith of the sky. means deviation from the truth, and they do not want the truth. They follow the ambiguous, and you find them—may Allah protect us from that—taking a verse of the Qur'an that contains ambiguity until they strike some of it against some of it. And how much of this is among the Christians. The Christians now introduce many doubts to the Muslims regarding the ambiguous. For example, they say: "Allah is the third of three." We have evidence. Do you not read in the Qur'an: ? The form of the pronoun is the plural form, so Allah the Exalted is more than two, three. And so they bring forth things with which they delude people, because there is deviation in their hearts. Also, some verses appear to contradict, such as His saying the Exalted: . Here He said: . And in another verse He says: . So did they conceal or not? Except that they concealed. They said: . They concealed, denying that they were associating partners with Allah. Also, it comes to you saying: . And He said in another verse: . Then it comes to you and says: . In another verse: they make excuses. They say that if they were returned to the world, they would be righteous and their conditions would be straightened out, so they make excuses. The important thing is that those who have deviation in their hearts bring these ambiguous verses to turn people away from the path of Allah and to make people doubt the words of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). Meaning: And as for those who have no deviation in their hearts, and they are the firmly grounded in knowledge, who have from knowledge what enables them to reconcile the ambiguous verses and know their meaning, for these there is no ambiguity. So they do not see in the Qur'an anything contradictory or conflicting.