Agar naskh (penghapusan hukum) dapat berlaku, tiga syarat berikut mesti dipenuhi:

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

1. Hukum yang telah digantikan mesti merupakan hukum ilahi. Ini bermakna pengharaman arak secara beransur-ansur tidak boleh dikelaskan sebagai naskh, kerana setiap ayat yang berikutnya hanya memperluas skop larangan ayat sebelumnya. Tingkah laku asal kaum tersebut ialah bertindak seolah-olah arak itu halal. Yang dimansuhkan secara beransur-ansur oleh tiga ayat mengenai perkara ini ialah anggapan mereka bahawa arak itu harus, bukan sebarang penyataan terdahulu daripada Allah bahawa arak itu dibenarkan.

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.