leave the matter to Allah. This is a clear contradiction. He should therefore be told: “The surah must be either unambiguous or ambiguous. If the former, your figurative interpretation here is invalid, as is your claim that it belongs to the ambiguous passages. If the latter, your use of it there to support your doctrine is invalid.”

The truth is that what he has said in his own favour in both places is false, while what he has said against himself is true. The surah is unquestionably unambiguous, as he stated in the first instance, and it indicates the opposite of his doctrine—there is no doubt about this, as they have stated. But it should be understood that these people, as Allah Most High says,

“are indeed of conflicting views (8). Whoever is deluded is turned away from it (9).” [al-Dhāriyāt 8–9]

They disagree about the Book, invoke it as evidence when they think it supports them, and reject it when it goes against them. They have made