Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: << وإذ ءاتينا موسى الكتاب و الفرقان لعلكم تهتدون >> from Surat al-Baqarah

Then Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said, clarifying another of the greatest of blessings: meaning We gave it to him. The verb *ata* with a long *alif* takes two objects, unlike *atayna*, which takes only one object, because *ata* with a long *alif* means "to give," while *ata* means "to come." He says: We gave it to him. The *al* in "the Book" is the *al* of covenant, meaning the covenants? The mental one, meaning the Book known to you, which is the Torah. It is called a Book because it is written; indeed, Allah wrote the Torah with His Hand (Exalted and Majestic is He). The *waw* is a conjunction, and is conjoined to . Is it something other than the Book, or is it the same, but in the category of an attribute conjoined to the described? The answer is the second: al-Furqan is the same Book, for the Torah is a criterion by which Allah distinguishes between truth and falsehood, between truth and injustice, between the awliya (close friends of Allah) and their enemies, and so on, by which distinction and differentiation are made. Thus, its conjunction is in the category of an attribute conjoined to the described. Have you not seen the saying of Allah the Exalted: And He who measured and guided is Allah the Exalted, but this is in the category of an attribute conjoined to an attribute. He (Exalted and Majestic is He) says: Perhaps this is for the purpose of causation, as mentioned before, and meaning you follow the path of guidance. The guidance intended here, as mentioned by Allah the Exalted, is guidance of direction and guidance of success. This is because what was given to Musa was knowledge, so whoever is guided by it has knowledge. Likewise, knowledge bears fruit in action for one who embraces it. So how is the guidance here explained? By guidance of knowledge and guidance of success, both intellectual and practical.