ثم فوق المجمل في الخفاء المتشابه.
Beyond mujmal in obscurity is mutashābih.
مثال المتشابه: الحروف المقطعات في أوائل السور.
An example is the disconnected letters at the opening of certain sūrahs.
وحكم المجمل والمتشابه: اعتقاد حقيقة المراد به حتى يأتي البيان.
For mujmal and mutashābih, affirm the truth of the intended meaning and await authoritative clarification.
Ascending clarity: ẓāhir → naṣṣ → mufassar → muḥkam; the indicated sense becomes progressively firmer.
Ascending obscurity: khafī → mushkil → mujmal → mutashābih; one moves from investigating an unusual application, to interpreting competing senses, to needing explanation, and ultimately to accepting what cannot be conclusively established by independent inference.
Juristically grounded inquiry can resolve khafī and mushkil. Mujmal and mutashābih must not be assigned a speculative meaning as though it were certain.