Introducing a verse with “Allah says” is an explicit citation: the text is presented together with attribution. In the technical sense of iqtibas, scriptural or hadith wording is incorporated into the writer's discourse without necessarily being separately announced as a quotation.
Thus, the distinction concerns the mode of presentation, not simply the presence of Qur'anic words. In both cases accuracy and appropriate context remain necessary.
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Conclusion: Literary Borrowing, Iqtibas, Tadmeen, and the Final Arts of Composition
Introducing a verse with “Allah says” is an explicit citation: the text is presented together with attribution. In the technical sense of iqtibas, scriptural or hadith wording is incorporated into the writer's discourse without necessarily being separately announced as a quotation.
Thus, the distinction concerns the mode of presentation, not simply the presence of Qur'anic words. In both cases accuracy and appropriate context remain necessary.