It is recorded about those who argue against the signs of Allah with disbelief: the intended meaning is arguing with falsehood, by attacking it, and aiming to refute the truth and extinguish the light of Allah. This is indicated by the saying, 'And they argue with falsehood to refute thereby the truth.' As for arguing about it to clarify its ambiguities and resolve its problems, and engaging with the people of knowledge in deriving its meanings and refuting the people of deviation with it and about it, this is the greatest struggle in the way of Allah. And his saying, blessings and peace be upon him: 'Indeed, arguing in the Qur'an is disbelief' [Narrated by Al-Tayalisi. And from his chain, Al-Bayhaqi in Al-Shu'ab in the nineteenth narration of Abdullah ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, with the wording: 'Do not argue in the Qur'an, for arguing in it is disbelief.' And there is a narration from Abu Huraira with the wording: 'Arguing in the Qur'an is disbelief' in the authentic and the Sunan.] And his mentioning it as something rejected, even if he did not say: 'Indeed, arguing,' distinguishes between one type of argument and another. If you say: From where does his statement 'So let not what preceded deceive you' arise? I say: From the fact that they were already witnessed against by Allah with disbelief, and no one is more miserable than the disbeliever before Allah. Therefore, it is necessary for one who realizes this not to favor their conditions in his eyes, nor let their prosperity in this world and their fluctuations in the lands through profitable trades and gains deceive him. The Quraysh were likewise fluctuating in the lands of Sham and Yemen, and they had wealth through which they traded and profited. However, the end of that and its consequence is extinction, and behind it is eternal misery. Then he set forth as an example for their denial, enmity towards the messengers, and arguing with falsehood, and what has been stored for them of a bad end: what happened to similar nations, and how they were seized by His punishment and what He brought upon them of His vengeance. And it is read: 'So let not what deceives you.'