قَالَ أَحَدُ الْحَاضِرِينَ: «كُلُّ التُّجَّارِ غَشَّاشُونَ».
One attendee said: “All merchants are dishonest.”
وَلَكِنَّ تَقْرِيرَ الْفَحْصِ لَمْ يَذْكُرْ إِلَّا خَلَلًا فِي مِيزَانَيْنِ.
But the inspection report recorded only faults in two scales.
The first statement establishes merely that an attendee made the allegation. It does not adopt the allegation as an established fact. The contrasting report confines the finding to the detected faults and does not declare universal dishonest intent.
Careful rhetoric preserves the distinction between a quoted claim, the narrator’s position, and independently reported evidence.