فَسَجَدَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ
Then all the angels prostrated, every one of them.
The emphatic wording “all of them, every one” removes a potential uncertainty about comprehensiveness and illustrates mufassar. Muhkam involves more than a high degree of clarity: the relevant meaning is also not open to abrogation in the scheme taught by the book. Extreme clarity alone is therefore not enough to label a text muhkam.
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Advanced Applied Usul: Testing Evidence and Inference (Supplementary)
فَسَجَدَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ
Then all the angels prostrated, every one of them.
The emphatic wording “all of them, every one” removes a potential uncertainty about comprehensiveness and illustrates mufassar. Muhkam involves more than a high degree of clarity: the relevant meaning is also not open to abrogation in the scheme taught by the book. Extreme clarity alone is therefore not enough to label a text muhkam.