A phantom visited briefly—and where is it from you?—so return peace to your visitor with greetings, (1)

meaning: "A phantom visited briefly, and where is it from you?" And as He, exalted is His praise, said in His Book: {Praise be to Allah, Who revealed to His servant the Book and did not place in it any crookedness, upright} [Surah al-Kahf: 1], meaning (2): Praise be to Allah, Who revealed to His servant the Book upright and did not place in it any crookedness, and what resembles that. In this, there is testimony and evidence for the correctness of the statement of the one who rejected that "In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful" is a verse of the Opening of the Book. (3)

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The discourse concerning the interpretation of His statement: ﴿Owner of the Day of Judgment﴾.

Abu Ja'far said: The reciters differ in the recitation of (māliki yawmi 'd-dīn). Some recite it "maliki yawmi 'd-dīn," some recite it (maliki yawmi 'd-dīn), and some recite it (mālika yawmi 'd-dīn) with the kāf in the accusative case. We have exhaustively related the narrations from those from whom a recitation was reported regarding this in the "Book of Recitations," and we have informed of that which we choose among the recitations in it, and the legal cause requiring the correctness of what we chose of the recitations in it, so we disliked repeating that in this place, as our intention in this book of ours is the clarification of the aspects of interpretation of the verses of the Qur'an, rather than the aspects of their recitation.

And there is no disagreement among all the people of knowledge of the languages of the Arabs that al-malik (king) from al-mulk (sovereignty)