[al-Furqān 30]

Abandoning its meanings is more serious than abandoning its words. Rather, all the early generations affirmed whatever had become clear to them of it: the unambiguous passages that form the foundation of the Book. Some passages might nevertheless be unclear to some of them. A person would either know their interpretation and understand their meaning in accordance with the unambiguous passages, or not know it, while still knowing that their meaning did not contradict the explicit meaning of the unambiguous passages.

In any event, they never set anything against the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, or gave it precedence over him—neither their opinions, desires, reasoning, analogies, and personal tastes, nor another book that contradicted him. Those who deviate from the truth, however, make their reasoning, analogies, and personal tastes the foundation and basis on which they rely. They then accept the Quran if it agrees with these; otherwise, they take one of two approaches to it: either making false comparisons or abandoning it and turning away from it. Both approaches were combined among those who denied the messengers, whether the Arab polytheists or others. Likewise, those who oppose it with another book