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.

Imām al-Shāṭibī, in this section, explains that ijtihād can be connected to a number of things, either to the texts, or more broadly speaking, to meanings, or to making verification of a basis to which a ruling may be applied.

A nāzilah must have three meanings: actual occurrence, completely new and severity, urgency as it relates to clarifying its legislative ruling.

"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."