Addressing claims made against the view of the negation of contagion in which some people spoke, without any real knowledge or understanding and made outlandish statements of exaggeration and injustice, devoid of evidence.

"It is upon them not to become sad, and not to consider the attack and revilement upon them to be something strange, because this is the [reality of the] situation from the earliest times of the Salaf to this era of ours."