Stage 1: Identify genuinely established senses; for qurʾ, menstruation and purity.
Stage 2: Study evidence and indications relevant to the occurrence.
Stage 3: Reach a preponderant interpretation through reasoned juristic assessment.
Stage 4: Apply the rule according to the preferred interpretation.
The word does not lose its lexical multiplicity. Rather, one meaning is preferred for the legal occurrence under study. This is the process the source illustrates by muʾawwal.