«والمتشابه هو ما يحتمل معنيين»
Mutashābih is expression capable of bearing two meanings or interpretive alternatives.
The term possibility matters: an alternative should arise from a recognizable lexical or syntactic feature, not an unsupported guess. A vague claim that any expression “could mean something else” has little value unless grammar, established usage or context can sustain that reading.
Ambiguity may arise from a pronoun’s antecedent, a word shared by different senses, the attachment of a coordinated phrase, or whether a clause continues a previous construction. Distinguishing these sources makes it possible to examine alternatives without treating every uncertainty as a contradiction in the text.