or does not accord with it. This is what the majority of Qur’anic commentators and others call taʾwīl. Such taʾwīl is grasped by those firmly grounded in knowledge, and it agrees with the reading of certain early scholars who pause at Allah’s words, “None knows its interpretation except Allah, and those firmly rooted in knowledge” (Q 3:7). This pause is reported from Ibn ʿAbbās, Mujāhid, Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr, and Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq,