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They cited Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Rāzī:

“Part Three: An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Salaf (the Early Muslim Generations), Comprising Several Chapters.

“Chapter One: Whether the Book of Allah Most High Can Contain Something We Have No Means of Knowing.

“Know that many jurists, hadith scholars, and Sufis allow this possibility, whereas the speculative theologians deny it.”

I say: The expression “something we have no means of knowing” is ambiguous. It may mean something that some people have no means of knowing, or something that no created being has any means of knowing. Furthermore, it may mean that no one has any means of understanding its meaning or knowing anything of what is intended by it. A person may instead be like a non-Arab who has memorized the words of the Quran but does not know