In Non-Sunni Islam
The principle of naskh is acknowledged by both Sunnis and Shī'a,. Among those groups that did reject naskh were the Mu'tazili and Zaidiyah, on the rationalist grounds that the word of God could not contain contradictions, and the much later Ahmadīs, who argued that all Qur'ānic verses have equal validity, in keeping with their emphasis on the "unsurpassable beauty and unquestionable validity of the Qur'ān". The harmonization of apparently incompatible rulings is resolved through their juridical deflation in Ahmadī fiqh, so that a ruling (considered to have applicability only to the specific situation for which it was revealed), is effective not because it was revealed last, but because it is most suited to the situation at hand.
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