What caution is required in relating the people of al-Aʿrāf to equal scales?

The Weighing, the Record, and the Questioning on Judgment Day

• Distinguish reported positions according to their evidentiary strength
• Treat the Qur’anic language of heaviness and lightness as irrelevant
• Treat all exegetical opinions as a single conclusive ruling
• Deny the existence of al-Aʿrāf