Another is its assertion that the meanings of the Torah, when rendered into Arabic, become the meanings of the Quran, and other assertions of this kind.

For this reason, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike, none has held this view except Ibn Kullāb and his followers.

This view entails that diverse meanings are a single meaning. If he were to say that the meanings associated with the letters can coexist at one time, that would be more intelligible than saying that they are a single meaning.

If someone were to say that letters occurring together are in reality a single letter, and that the separate letters are attributes of that letter rather than divisions of it, this would resemble the view that those diverse meanings are a single meaning.

For it is self-evidently known that letters arranged in sequence correspond to the meanings they signify, and arise as those meanings arise in the speaker’s mind.

If someone says that letters are mutually opposed, so that two of them cannot coexist in a single locus, it could likewise be said that meanings are mutually opposed, so that two of them cannot coexist in a single locus.

For the most that can be said is that the locus of meanings is one, unlike that of letters