at length. Accordingly, there is no need to reinterpret any of these verses.

Seventh: Even if we were to suppose that reinterpretation was necessary, it unquestionably runs contrary to the default principle, and multiplying such departures is likewise contrary to that principle. If one of two views requires reinterpreting a few verses—two, three, or ten—while the other requires reinterpreting some five hundred passages, whether or not those few are also reinterpreted, the latter view cannot be placed on a par with the former. Rather, any view that more faithfully upholds the texts is better than one that requires their reinterpretation.

Eighth: Those verses are unequivocal texts that admit of no reinterpretation, as we shall establish, Allah willing.

Ninth: When texts with apparent meanings reinforce one another in indicating a single meaning, that meaning becomes certain—just as individual reports, when they converge on a single meaning, amount to mass transmission. For when probable indications become numerous and reinforce one another, they yield certain knowledge. The same is true of these texts.