The five sciences designate the Qur’an’s major themes: rulings, responses to disputed beliefs, divine signs, God’s dealings with earlier peoples, and reminders of death and the afterlife. These themes are recognizable in the discourse itself. Teaching, translation, and more specialized interpretation may be used to examine or transmit them.
When a verse openly discusses resurrection, its immediate category is remembrance of the afterlife. Constructing a thematic chart, translating the verse, and reporting an individual spiritual impression are three further activities with different aims and levels of authority.
Separating the activities makes it possible to preserve the meaning of the verse without confusing it with later scholarly or experiential claims.