When does “Time is a trust” illustrate ījāz al-qaṣr rather than ellipsis?
Supplementary Practice 10: Rhetoric of Claim, Evidence, Objection and Reply
- When a relative pronoun is necessarily omitted
- When compact wording evokes wider implications without requiring an identifiable omission
- When it must always be the predicate of kāna
- When it conveys no broader implication