‘This is the view of the majority of the early Quran commentators. Some scholars with a juristic orientation held that the two differ. They said: Exegesis brings something out of obscurity into clarity, whereas interpretation transfers speech from its original sense to a meaning whose establishment does not require evidence—evidence without which the apparent sense of the wording would not have been abandoned. The term derives from saying that something “came to such-and-such,” meaning that it reached that state.’”

Then he said concerning the verse in Āl ‘Imrān: He said, “There are two meanings of ‘interpretation’: the first is exegesis, and the second is the awaited outcome. ‘Firmly grounded’ means firmly established. Do those firmly grounded in knowledge know its interpretation or not? There are two views. The first is that they do not know it and that they believe in it. Tāwūs narrated from Ibn ‘Abbās that he recited: ‘And those firmly grounded in knowledge say, “We believe in it.”’ And to