وأما إشارة النص فهي ما ثبت بنظم النص من غير زيادة، وهو غير ظاهر من كل وجه، ولا سيق الكلام لأجله.
Ishārat al-naṣṣ establishes a ruling from the text’s own structure, without adding wording, although it is not the discourse’s immediate purpose.
Ishārah arises from the text’s syntactic and semantic structure. Its implication is within that structure, though one must reflect beyond the immediate point of the passage to notice it.
One rule is the explicit topic; a further legal or factual consequence follows from the wording used to establish that topic. No new expression is inserted, which distinguishes ishārah from the supplementation required by iqtiḍāʾ.
It is not a license to infer anything imaginable from a verse. The implication must genuinely follow from the language.