because obedience in the first category does not demonstrate complete submission: the person commanded may have acted only because he understood through reason the benefit involved. Obedience in the second category, however, demonstrates complete submission and the utmost surrender. Since he does not discern any benefit in it at all, his performance of it can only be an expression of pure submission and surrender.

If this is so with actions, why may it not also be so with words? That is, the Quran, which Allah Most High has sent down to us and enjoined us to follow, revere, and recite, falls into two categories: that whose meaning is understood