الآية رقم (106) - مَا نَنسَخْ مِنْ آيَةٍ أَوْ نُنسِهَا نَأْتِ بِخَيْرٍ مِّنْهَا أَوْ مِثْلِهَا أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللّهَ عَلَىَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

(106) - “We do not abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten except that We bring forth [one] better than it or similar to it. Do you not know that Allah is over all things competent?”

We say that, when Allah U intended that a ruling be issued for the believers in gradual succession, He knew that each step of the rule was to be there for a limited time. When the time was up, it would be removed and the new ruling would take its place. This was because, He knew that the situation was such that the ruling needed to be issued gradually. Therefore, this does not at all mean that Allah U had initially issued a ruling which he replaced with a better ruling as during the implementation of the former, it was found that it had its short-comings, Transcendent is He of this. Rather, He had revealed the first ruling on the condition that it was temporary, as every verse which had been abrogated had been revealed to be carried out for a certain period of time and was then replaced while this had been known and decreed by Allah U since eternity.