What rhetorical effect can omission of the response to “law raʾayta mā ḥadath ...” achieve?
Supplementary Practice 3: Rhetorical Judgment, Contextual Evidence and Combined Devices
- Interpreting the response as a separate expressed event
- Leaving the magnitude or alarm of the event to the audience’s imagination
- Treating all conditional speech as general tadhyīl
- Presenting one possible response as the only exact original wording