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.
"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."
Shaykh al-Albānī explains that taking the means as part of reliance includes only definitive affairs or those about which there is overwhelming belief that they are successful and efficacious. As for what is less than them, then they are to be abandoned for pure reliance.
"No matter how much strength [of knowledge] and expertise a woman has been given, she will not be able to encompass the hideouts and hiding-places of men [in these affairs]. This is extremely difficult."
Supplication and seeking refuge with Allāh is more useful and more beneficial than treatment with medications, and the effect and influence of that on the body is greater than the effect of bodily medicines.
Statements of the scholars on the domains of the scholar and the doctor and the manner in which a scholar gives a fatwā in issues pertaining to medicine.
Statements from the Major Scholars clarifying whether tazkiyah (commendation), takharruj (graduation) or shahādah (certification) are required before one gives da`wah and teaches.
A defence of ʿUthmān [rd] against the claims of Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī and his Ḥaddādī followers in light of the taḥqīq (verification) of the Scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah, both past and present, in the matter.