[3308] Wāṣiban means internally, conclusively and unchangingly; the root w-ṣ-b denotes perpetuity (cf. Ibn Qutaybah, Gharīb al-Qur’ān, Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lughah, al-Iṣfahānī, al-Mufradāt): “Or have they other Associates who have ordained for them a religion to which Allah has not consented?” (42: 21)