Does abrogation mean that God is fallible?
Strange question, since the first definition for the word is this: “The Abrogation doctrine is a constitutional law doctrine expounding when and how the Congress may waive a state’s sovereign immunity and subject it to lawsuits to which the state has not consented (i.e., to “abrogate” their immunity to such suits).” The second definition has to do with this: “Naskh is an Arabic language word usually translated as “abrogation”; it shares the same root as the words appearing in the phrase al-nāsikh wal-mansūkh, “the abrogating and abrogated [verses]”). It is a technical term for a major genre of Islamic legal exegesis directed at the problem of seemingly contradictory material within or between the twin bases of Islamic holy law: the Qur’ān and the Prophetic Sunna. In its application, naskh typically involves the replacement (tabdīl) of an earlier verse/tradition (and thus its embodied ruling) with a chronologically successive one. The complete suppression (izāla) of a regulation so that
