حكمه: التوقف مع اعتقاد حقيقة المراد به إلى أن يأتي البيان من قبل المتكلم.
Its ruling is to refrain from determining a precise sense until clarification comes from the speaker, while believing in the truth of the intended reality.
Tawaqquf is not a claim that the wording is meaningless or false. It means that one should not attribute a specific, definitive explanation to God without adequate warrant.
Within the book's formulation, assent to the true divine intention and restraint over one's own interpretive certainty go together. That is different from the ordinary difficulty of translating an unfamiliar word.