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12.conclusion 489ning nor at the end. Instead, we are supposed to keep a safedistance of a couple of seconds both before dawn and aftersunset.We have shown the need to rethink the notion of abrogationin the Book. As such, there are no abrogating or abrogated versesthat were stated within a one single messengerhood. Everyverse owns an area for itself, and every injunction possesses alegal space in which it operates independently. However, basedon verse 106 of Sårat al-Baqara, which says ‘whichever verseWe abrogate or cause [over long periods of time] to be forgotten,We bring instead a better or similar one. Did you not knowthat Allah has the power over all things?’ [MF], we maintainthat abrogation did occur but only between different systemsof legislation. There had been, for example, the legal proscriptionsin Moses’ sharÊ#a which were abrogated by the legal proscriptionsas issued in the sharÊ#a of Jesus. We have given theexample of verse 50 of Sårat $l #Imr§n: ‘I [Jesus] have cometo confirm what came before me of the Torah and make lawfulto you some of the things that were forbidden to you’ [MF].We then said that MuÈammad’s (ß) message came next whichabrogated some more injunctions of Moses’ sharÊ#a, such asthose concerning adultery and homosexuality, and replacedthem with different injunctions and added new ones for areasof law where previously there had not been any legal prescription,such as for issues of inheritance and lesbian relationships.We have stressed that our criticism is directed against thecurrent confused understanding of abrogation, by which hundredsof verses are deemed to be abrogating or abrogated, tosuch an extent that, on the basis of eccentric hermeneuticalmanoeuvres, peaceful jih§d is interpreted as military conquestand moral admonition is interpreted as militant fight, to namebut a few of such misinterpretations we have cited in chapter6. For us, every legal injunction, whether revealed first or second,earlier or later, will count equally. In fact, we apply thesame measures of authentication and explanation of abrogationsthat were used by the councils at the time of Abå Bakr,#Umar, and #Uthm§n. We also believe that the right of abrogationlies solely with the Creator and the author of the Book. Andwe believe that He would have told us explicitly what verse of