that among what God revealed of the Qur'an to His Prophet, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, is that whose interpretation cannot be known except through the clarification of the Messenger, Peace and blessings of God be upon him. That is the interpretation of all that it contains: the aspects of His commands—obligatory, recommended, and guiding—the types of His prohibitions, the functions of His rights and limits, the extents of His obligations, the measures of what is binding upon some of His creation toward others, and similar rulings of its verses, the knowledge of which cannot be grasped except through the clarification of the Messenger of God, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, to his nation. This is an avenue in which it is not permissible for anyone to speak, except through the clarification of its interpretation by the Messenger of God, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, for him (1) by an explicit text from him regarding it, or by an indication he has established, guiding his nation to its interpretation.

And that among it is what no one knows its interpretation except God, the One, the Subduer. That is what it contains of information about impending deadlines and future times, such as the time of the establishment of the Hour, the blowing of the Trumpet, the descent of ʿĪsā ibn Maryam, and the like: for those are times whose limits no one knows, and no one knows anything of their interpretation except the information about their signs, because God has kept the knowledge of that exclusively to Himself, away from His creation. And with that, our Lord revealed the decisive verses of His Book (2), saying: {They ask you about the Hour: when is its arrival? Say, "Its knowledge is only with my Lord. None will reveal its time except Him. It lays heavily upon the heavens and the earth. It will not come upon you except unexpectedly." They ask you as if you are familiar with it. Say, "Its knowledge is only with God, but most of the people do not know"} [Sūrat al-Aʿrāf: 187]. And whenever our Prophet Muḥammad, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, mentioned anything of that, he would only indicate it by its signs without specifying its time, such as what was narrated from him, Peace and blessings of God be upon him, that he said to his Companions when he mentioned the Antichrist (al-Dajjāl): "If he emerges while I am among you, I will be his disputant; and if he emerges after me, then God is my successor over you" (3) and similar