[al-A‘rāf 28]

Likewise, Allah Most High says:

“They forgot Allah, so He forgot them.” [al-Tawbah 67]

He said: The apparent sense of forgetting is the opposite of knowing, while its less likely sense is abandoning, as in the words of Allah Most High:

“So He made them forget themselves.” [al-Hashr 19]

The unambiguous passage that clarifies this is the statement of Allah Most High:

“Your Lord is never forgetful.” (64) [Maryam 64]

And His statement:

“My Lord neither errs nor forgets.” (52) [Tā Hā 52]

He said: This summarizes the discussion explaining the clear and ambiguous passages. Success comes from Allah.

Several objections may be raised to this. The first concerns his statement that when a word applies equally to two meanings, the mind suspends judgment. The response is: If the two meanings are on an equal footing and both are intended, then the expression is a comprehensive designation. If only one is intended, their equality must either arise from the evidence for each being equally strong—so that no indication singles out the intended meaning, and the evidence for the intended and unintended meanings is equal—or exist in the listener’s mind because he has not recognized the stronger evidence for the intended meaning. The same applies to suspension of judgment