A declarative reply and a prayer have different communicative functions and may exhibit complete disjunction. Yet omitting wāw can sometimes create a harmful ambiguity.
This is waṣl to prevent misinterpretation: the conjunction is needed not because the speech acts match, but because it blocks an unintended reading.
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Ellipsis in Istiʾnāf and Two Grounds for Waṣl
A declarative reply and a prayer have different communicative functions and may exhibit complete disjunction. Yet omitting wāw can sometimes create a harmful ambiguity.
This is waṣl to prevent misinterpretation: the conjunction is needed not because the speech acts match, but because it blocks an unintended reading.