Majāz Mursal and Istiʿārah: Non-similarity Relations and Their Types

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• What primarily distinguishes majāz mursal from istiʿārah?
• What does “al-muṣaḥḥiḥah” require in defining mursal?
• Why is this class called mursal?
• Which analysis best fits “I saw a lion shooting”?
• In metaphor, what does mustaʿār lahu signify?
• What does “kathurat ayādī fulān” intend?
• In “favor” used for “power,” what is the direction of transfer?
• Why can “hand” designate power?
• What relation is discussed for rāwiyah used of a water-container?
• Using “eye” for a whole sentinel is an example of what?
• Why is not every bodily part equally suitable for naming a sentinel?
• In the fingers-in-ears example, what physical portion is especially intended?
• How do part-for-whole and whole-for-part differ?
• In “we grazed the rain,” what do animals actually graze?
• In “the sky rained plants,” what does nabāt indicate figuratively?
• What determines the causal direction in “we grazed the rain”?
• What is designation by a former state in “give the orphans their property” called?
• In “I see myself pressing wine,” what material is called khamr?
• What distinguishes former-state from future-state transfer?
• Who are figuratively intended by nādī in “let him call his assembly”?
• What relation supports taking raḥmah as Paradise in the cited rhetorical reading?
• What is intended by lisān in “grant me a tongue of truth among later people”?
• How do the semantic relation and contextual indicator differ?
• Must every mursal relation be an inseparable logical entailment?
• Which pair has majāz mursal first and metaphor second?
• What does “hand” signifying gifts in one context and power in another show?
• What is the proper first step in analyzing a new mursal occurrence?
• Why is “fingers in their ears” analyzed as whole-for-part?
• Why is memorizing a named example insufficient for identifying mursal elsewhere?
• Every example of majāz mursal is based on resemblance.
• In “we grazed the rain,” rainfall is a cause and vegetation is its effect.
• Calling a sentinel “eye” is whole-for-part because eye literally names the complete person.
• “I see myself pressing wine” names the present substance by its later product.
• The relation and indicator in majāz are two names for the same thing.
• “Let him call his nādī” may designate the people associated with the assembly place.