Agar naskh dapat terjadi, tiga syarat berikut harus terpenuhi:

For naskh to have taken place, the following three conditions must have been fulfilled:

1. Hukum yang dihapus (mansukh) haruslah hukum yang berasal dari syariat Ilahi. Artinya, pelarangan khamar secara bertahap tidak tergolong naskh, karena setiap ayat berikutnya hanya memperluas cakupan larangan dari ayat sebelumnya. Kebiasaan asal masyarakat adalah bertindak seolah-olah khamar itu halal. Yang dihapus secara bertahap oleh ketiga ayat tentang hal ini adalah anggapan mereka bahwa khamar itu boleh, bukan pernyataan terdahulu dari Allah bahwa khamar itu mubah.

1. The law which has been replaced has to have been a divine law. This means that the gradual prohibition of alcohol would not be classified as naskh, because each successive verse only expanded the prohibitive scope of the previous verse. The original behavior of the people was to act as if alcohol was lawful. It was their assumption that alcohol was permissible that was gradually abolished by the three verses on this subject, not any previous statement by Allaah that liquor was permissible.