"The 'Forbidden' are the Tyrants (Al-Tawaghit) who opposed them; and the allegiance to whoever follows them is the 'Forbidden'."
As for the Abrogating (Al-Nasikh):
"He is the Person of the 'Mim' [Muhammad/The Name] who is manifest in every Dome (Qubba), the establisher of the Sacred Law (Al-Shari’ah) and the Call (Al-Da’wah)."
As for the Abrogated (Al-Mansukh):
"He is the past Person who is now hidden [absent],"
according to the saying of the Exalted:
{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} 1 .
The Abrogating is the present [establisher], and the Abrogated is the past. One must act according to the word of the Abrogating, even if he brings what differs from what the Abrogated brought. It is the duty of the Nation (Al-Ummah) to