6 - The reformer says:

"As years elapsed, the Qur'an and the Hadith, in the power of those who wished to be rulers rather than the men of religion, changed shape like the tricks of magicians. Being unable to overcome the enemy with word, they interpreted the Qur'an as they wished and made up hadiths which would suit their purposes."

The reformer speaks ill of the branches of knowledge which he knows nothing about. He attempts to blemish the most precious pages of the books of tafsir. On the parts which the writers of those books wrote through ijtihad, everyone has the right to enter into discussion provided he will observe the rules of discussion and decency. Yet nothing can be so out of place and so funny as for a reformer who knows nothing about the eloquence of the Qur'an, to slander az-Zamakhshari's tafsir.