al-Ḥijr 15:36-38

Qāla Rabbi fa-anẓirnī ilā yawmi yubʿathūn · Qāla fa-innaka mina'l-munẓarīn · Ilā yawmi'l-waqti'l-maʿlūm

"He said: 'My Lord! Then give me respite until the day they are raised.' · 'You are of those given respite · — until the day of the known time.'"

What must be recorded is the difference between what was asked and what was given:

The request is accepted, but the term is described with another word.

I record this as my own reading, and its ground is the difference between the two expressions: Iblīs asked for a day that he himself knew (the raising). The answer bound the limit to a time that is known — but by whom it is known was not said. That is, the term is given; the knowledge that determines the term is not left to the other party.

And the attribute maʿlūm comes for the third time in the sūra (4, 21, 38) — it was set out in a table in the section on the structure.

م-ن-ظ-ر / ن-ظ-ر — inẓār: to grant a term. And the word had occurred in the eighth verse of the sūra: wa mā kānū idhan munẓarīn — had the angels been sent down they would have been given no respite.

I record this as a weave within the sūra, and it can be verified: the same word, twenty-nine verses apart, one a respite refused and one a respite granted.