A prohibition of minor injury to parents also communicates that more severe injury is forbidden. Which reasoning is involved?

Advanced Applied Cases and Reasoning Assessment in Usul al-Shashi

• Analogy, since severity of harm can only be shown as an external cause
• Ishāra, because the stronger injury is a secondary implication unrelated to the original purpose
• Dalālat al-naṣṣ because the meaning of greater harm is evident in the language
• Iqtiḍāʾ, since the original prohibition is incomplete without an omitted phrase