When a transitive verb appears without an object, proceed in this order:
1. Identify the main claim: the agent's characteristic or the action affecting something.
2. Ask whether context supplies a recoverable object.
3. Distinguish nonrestriction, universality, specificity, and indirect indication.
4. Explain what additional or different information would arise if an object were explicitly supplied.
Conclusion: Nonmention may involve no implied object, or it may involve true ellipsis. The next independent heading, أَوْجُهُ حَذْفِ الْمَفْعُولِ, studies the particular purposes served by omitting an intended object.