The creational decree is illustrated by His words:

“Then He completed them as seven heavens” (Fussilat 41:12),

whereas the religious decree appears in His statement:

“Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him, and that you show kindness to parents” (al-Isrāʾ 17:23)—that is, He has commanded it.

The creational prohibition is exemplified by His words:

“We had already forbidden all wet-nurses for him” (al-Qaṣaṣ 28:12),

and by His saying:

“Indeed, it is forbidden them for forty years; they shall wander through the land” (al-Māʾidah 5:26),

and His words:

“It is forbidden to a town that We have destroyed that they ever return” (al-Anbiyāʾ 21:95).

The religious prohibition is like His statement:

“Forbidden to you are carrion, blood, and the flesh of swine” (al-Māʾidah 5:3),

and His saying:

“Forbidden to you (in marriage) are your mothers, your daughters, and your sisters” (al-Nisāʾ 4:23).

As for the creational “words,” they are exemplified by the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—who said:

“I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah, which no righteous or wicked person can ever surpass.”

And among them