What is central to the discussion of imtidād nafasī?

Division of Surahs into Verses, Qur’anic Rhythm, and Verse Endings

• The natural span of connected speech in relation to breathing and pauses
• Keeping the rhyme consonant fixed at line endings
• Equating pauses between verses with one duration of tajwīd extension
• Obligatory division into two poetic hemistichs