﴿ ٱلَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا۟ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ عِضِينَ ﴾

“[and] who [now] declare this Qur'an to be [a tissue of] falsehoods!”

Those who have reduced the Recitation (Qurʾān) to parts.He [Sahl] said:The outward meaning of the verse is as the commentators have explained. However, its inner meaning concerns the rules (aḥkām) that God, Exalted is He, sent down regarding our hearing, sight and heart[s] (fuʾād), [referred to] in His words, Exalted is He: Indeed, the hearing, the sight and the heart, each of these it will be asked [17:36]. Thus, they turned away from acting by it, inclining towards the demands of their natural self (nafs al-ṭabʿ). His words, Exalted is He: