How should a short expression be judged if it loses an essential part of the message?
Ījāz, Iṭnāb and Musāwāt: Standards of Expression and Their Distinctions
- It is not eloquent ījāz merely because it is short
- It is musāwāt because the wording is short
- It is useful iṭnāb because meaning is omitted
- It is eloquent ījāz whenever deletion is extensive