The passage also raises a difficulty about addressing mixed audiences: some doubt, some accept, and some resist the proposition. How can one conditional form serve the whole group?
One response is to rhetorically assimilate those without doubt to the state of doubters, or to frame certainty as if it were doubtful for the collective. Another response appeals to treating a mixed audience under one dominant description.
Taghlib arises here as a possible explanatory move; its dedicated systematic treatment begins in the next section.