And Mu‘āwiyah ibn Qurrah said: “Its fulfillment is the recompense in the Hereafter.” This was narrated by Ibn Abī Hātim and others. Another example is Allah’s statement:

“Or do they say, ‘He has fabricated it’? Say, ‘Then produce a surah like it and call upon whomever you can besides Allah, if you are truthful.’ (38) Rather, they have denied what they do not fully comprehend and whose fulfillment has not yet come to them.” [Yūnus 38-39]

Thus, they understood neither the message nor what it foretold. Fully comprehending it means understanding its meaning, while its fulfillment is what it foretells of promises and warnings in this world and the Hereafter. This is the sounder of the two views. It has also been said that knowledge of its interpretation had not yet come to them.

Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī said concerning Allah’s statement, “And whose fulfillment has not yet come to them” [Yūnus 39]: “There are two views. The first is the fulfillment of the warnings they had been given. The second is that they had no knowledge of its interpretation, as stated by