and healing are undoubtedly more complete and perfect when its meaning is understood. Allah Most High says:

“Among them are those who listen to you, but when they leave your presence, they say to those who have been given knowledge, ‘What did he just say?’ Those are the ones whose hearts Allah has sealed and who follow their own desires.” (16) [Muhammad 16]

He thus censures those who do not understand what was said, while describing the others as having been given knowledge. Allah Most High also says:

“Are those who know equal to those who do not know?” [Al-Zumar 9]

As for his statement that, if a person does not grasp the intended meaning, yet knows that the speaker is the wisest of judges, his heart will remain constantly attentive to it and he will continually reflect upon it, the reply is: this is true if he hopes to understand it and considers understanding it possible. But if he is certain that no created being can understand it, he loses all hope of doing so. His heart then turns to what he hopes to attain, and he does not reflect upon it. Rather, his attention remains directed toward the wording rather than its meaning, and wording is subordinate