In a supportive advisory context, how is “rājiʿ darsaka qabla al-munāqashah” best read?

Supplementary Practice 9: How Small Wording Changes Alter Rhetorical Meaning

• Necessarily a rebuke of third parties
• A supplication without contextual evidence
• Unambiguously a past-tense statement
• Guidance (irshād) for the addressee’s benefit