If a compact statement can be elaborated, what does that establish?
Musāwāt and Ījāz al-Qaṣr: Proportionate Wording and the Rhetoric of Qiṣāṣ
- That a verb must have been omitted
- Only that its meaning can be explained at length, not that words were omitted
- That its subject must be omitted
- That it is necessarily ījāz al-ḥadhf