السَّلَامَةُ قَبْلَ السُّرْعَةِ.
Safety comes before speed.
This compact statement conveys a complete and widely applicable principle about travel decisions. In a suitable context it illustrates ījāz al-qaṣr: much usable meaning in little wording, without dependence on a specific syntactically omitted clause.
By contrast, in shaʾalū ... may need an apodosis supplied from context. Calling both the same type of ellipsis would obscure an essential grammatical distinction.
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Supplementary Practice 15: Caravan Reports, Attribution and the Limits of Inference
السَّلَامَةُ قَبْلَ السُّرْعَةِ.
Safety comes before speed.
This compact statement conveys a complete and widely applicable principle about travel decisions. In a suitable context it illustrates ījāz al-qaṣr: much usable meaning in little wording, without dependence on a specific syntactically omitted clause.
By contrast, in shaʾalū ... may need an apodosis supplied from context. Calling both the same type of ellipsis would obscure an essential grammatical distinction.