وأما دلالة النص: فهي ما علم علة للحكم المنصوص عليه لغة لا اجتهادا ولا استنباطا.
Dalālat al-naṣṣ is grounded in a reason evident from the language of the stated ruling, not discovered through independent juristic inference.
A text may state a ruling in one instance while its language makes the operative reason plainly intelligible. A second instance containing that same reason is then covered by dalālat al-naṣṣ.
The unstated case is included because the underlying rationale is clear from ordinary linguistic comprehension. This differs from analogical reasoning, where identifying or extending a ratio may require separate juristic inference.
A loose resemblance between cases is insufficient. The reason must genuinely be clear from the wording itself.