Then he explained that by saying: ﴿Allah erases﴾ meaning the Greatest King ﴿what He wills﴾ meaning His erasure (p-361) of the laws and rulings and others by abrogation, so He raises ﴿and establishes﴾ what He wills to establish of that by confirming it and allowing His ruling to proceed, as He, the Exalted, said: ﴿We do not abrogate any verse or cause it to be forgotten﴾ [Al-Baqarah: 106] until His saying ﴿Do you not know that Allah is capable of all things?﴾ [Al-Baqarah: 106] All of that is according to the interests related to each time, for He is the All-Knowing of all things, and He is the Doer of what He wills without objection against Him. Al-Shafi'i, may Allah have mercy on him, said in Al-Risalah: He erases the obligation of what He wills and establishes the obligation of what He wills. The presence of the letter 'waw' in ﴿He erases﴾ in all the copies of the Qur'an indicates - as mentioned by the people of Allah - that the 'waw' means elevation and highness, indicating that some of the erased remains with its effects high. For indeed, He may erase the lifetime of a person after he had beautiful effects, and He keeps them, glorified is He, and spreads them and elevates them. He may erase a law that He abrogates and leave from it good effects that indicate what has been established from the abrogating law. As for its removal by the agreement of the copies also in ﴿And Allah erases falsehood﴾ [Ash-Shura: 24] in Ash-Shura, although it is also elevated, it is for the good news of the annihilation of falsehood, an annihilation that is the end - as will come, if Allah wills. This is due to the similarity of the action with the command that necessitates the occurrence with utmost precision and defense. And He said: ﴿And with Him﴾ along with that is the 'Mother' meaning the origin of ﴿the Book﴾ [Ar-Ra'd: 43] for whoever's illusion is constrained by the fact that preservation is by writing, which is the Preserved Tablet that is the origin of every book. It has been previously mentioned (p-362) more than once that it is the Clear Book which clarifies everything that one seeks knowledge of from it whenever one seeks; Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them, said: They are two books: a book other than the Mother of the Book, from which He erases what He wills and establishes, and the Mother of the Book from which nothing is changed - this is the end. The intended meaning - and Allah knows best - is that it is in the Mother of the Book that we do such and such - even if it is in the branch otherwise, for it is in relation to one law rather than another. So if the first law is abrogated, we erase it for such a time, or the meaning may be: He erases what He wills from that book by annihilating its content after existence, and establishes what He wills by bringing it into existence from non-existence, and with Him is the Mother of the Book; Al-Razi said in Al-Lawami': They have spoken extensively about it, and in general, everything that relates to His will from the existents is between erasure and establishment, erasure in relation to the form that has been elevated, establishment in relation to the second form, and the eternal decree and divine will are the source of this erasure and establishment. Therefore, it is the decree and this is the destiny; the decree is the source of destiny, and destiny is the manifestation of decree, and Allah, the Exalted, and His attributes are free from change.