For His saying - Most High -:

{And send in the cities gatherers}

And His saying - Most High -:

{And were gathered for Solomon his soldiers} etc.

And this is more fitting to the story of Banu An-Nadir,

and more eloquent and stronger in clarifying the favor from Allah the Almighty.

[The Abrogating and the Abrogated:]

Likewise, among what the narrations of the exegetes include

is the explanation of the abrogating and the abrogated, and it is fitting that you know here two subtle points:

1 - The first subtle point: is that the Companions and the Successors - may Allah be pleased with them -

did not use "abrogation" in the terminological meaning known among the legal theorists,

rather, they intended by it the linguistic meaning which is an expression for "removal".

So the meaning of abrogation then to them is the removal of some attributes of the preceding verse by the subsequent verse,

whether it was a clarification of the end of the period of acting upon it, or a redirection of speech from the readily understood meaning,

or a clarification of the introduction of a restriction from the restrictions, or a specification of the general,

or a clarification of the distinction between that which is explicitly stated and that which is analogized to it outwardly, and the likes of that.

And this is a vast field, and for the intellect in it is scope,

and for disagreement in it is leeway, and for this reason the verses considered abrogated upon this meaning reached five hundred verses.

2 - The second subtle point: is that the basis in abrogation in the terminological meaning