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and both passages become arenas of doubt and misgiving for others: over there the discussion turns on what is ambiguous, while here it turns on what Satan casts in—something God then abrogates before He makes His verses definitive. Thus the definitive (muhkam) here is set in opposition to whatever God has abrogated of what Satan had introduced.
وكلا الموضعين موضع ريب وشبهة لغيرهم؛ فإن الكلام هناك في المتشابه وهنا فيما يلقي الشيطان مما ينسخه الله ثم يحكم الله آياته وجعل المحكم هنا ضد الذي نسخه الله مما ألقاه الشيطان؛