Custom: recognized usage of 'head', 'eggs', and devotional vows.
Indication in the words themselves: the legal predicate 'is free' qualifies the subject of 'every person I own'.
Context: 'come down' followed by a challenge; a request for safety followed by a threat; an agent's stated purpose; the function of listing zakāt recipients.
The speaker: the imperative wording in 'Let whoever wills believe or disbelieve' functioning as warning rather than religious permission.
Subject matter: words of property sale applied to a free woman; literal paternity excluded by already-established lineage.
The central question is always whether the full lexical sense remains intended. What differs is the evidence supporting the departure. Recognizing those distinct evidentiary routes is what makes the analysis disciplined rather than speculative.