Defining Majāz: Conditions, Indication, and Classification by Convention

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• What is the function of “ʿalā wajhin yaṣiḥḥ” in the definition of majāz?
• What does the contextual indicator establish in “maʿa qarīnati ʿadami irādatihī”?
• In “I saw a lion shooting,” what role does courage play?
• When is asad used literally in its ordinary lexical register?
• Why is pointing to a book while saying “this horse” not automatically majāz?
• Which feature distinguishes kināyah from majāz in this framework?
• What is the correct distinction between relation and indicator?
• Why must majāz be assessed within the governing speech convention?
• What principally separates single-word and composite majāz?
• What does “mufrad” designate in single-word majāz?
• How is ṣalāh for ritual worship classified in religious discourse?
• What does ṣalāh used for supplication within religious discourse illustrate?
• What type is the grammatical technical use of fiʿl?
• Which category applies to established ordinary use of dābbah for a four-footed animal?
• What governs the lexical/religious/customary division of literal and figurative use?
• What determines the subsequent distinction between metaphor and majāz mursal?
• Which classification should be considered when surface and implied senses remain possible?
• Does selecting one of a homonym’s conventionally assigned senses by context necessarily make it figurative?
• Is every technical use of an established transferred term a fresh metaphor?
• What is the careful reading of the isolated phrase “I saw a lion” without further context?
• Why must the definition begin with a word “actually used”?
• Which description includes the complete defining elements of majāz?
• What does calling something “lexical majāz” identify?
• Which issue belongs to composite figurative usage?
• Which conclusion would be mistaken about the technical grammatical word fiʿl?
• If a relation exists but context does not exclude the literal sense, what is the correct next step?
• The definition of majāz requires an actual use, non-assigned meaning, valid relation and indicator.
• Every unrelated mislabeling is automatically a rhetorical figure.
• The literal sense may remain possible in kināyah, whereas the majāz indicator excludes it.
• The lexical/religious/customary division and the mursal/metaphor division use the same criterion.
• An established grammatical term such as fiʿl can be literal within a specialized convention.
• “I saw a lion” always means a brave person, regardless of context.