and adopts some form of interpretation concerning it—I mean concerning the nature of the Resurrection, not its reality—provided that this interpretation does not lead to denying its reality. Denying its reality constitutes unbelief precisely because it concerns a fundamental principle of the revealed Law, one that can be affirmed through the three methods common to people of every race.

As for those who are not learned, their duty is to take these descriptions in their apparent sense. For them, figurative interpretation constitutes unbelief because it leads to unbelief. We therefore hold that, for anyone whose obligation is to believe in the apparent meaning, figurative interpretation constitutes unbelief because it leads to unbelief; and whoever calls to unbelief is an unbeliever.

For this reason, these interpretations must be set down only in works of demonstrative reasoning, since, when confined to such works, they will be accessible only to those qualified in demonstration. If, however, they are set down in works other than those of demonstration, and poetic methods are employed in them