قِلَّةُ الْمَاءِ لَا تَعْنِي انْقِطَاعَهُ، وَتَوَقُّفُ السَّحْبِ لَا يَدُلُّ وَحْدَهُ عَلَى قَصْدِ الْحِرْمَانِ.
Scarcity does not equal cessation, and a pumping stoppage alone does not prove an intention to deprive.
The complete case brings together proposition scope, causal qualifications, contrast, restriction and apt emphasis. Three questions guide analysis: exactly what was asserted, which rival meaning was rejected, and which contextual evidence warrants that reading?
Eloquence is not constant brevity or constant emphasis. It is communication that conveys the right proposition, at the warranted degree of assurance, with fitting syntactic and rhetorical relations.