LessonsIbarat, Isharat, Dalalat and Iqtida of Text: Four Routes to Legal MeaningQuiz

Isharah yields an incidental yet text-grounded implication, such as paternal attribution implied by “al-mawlud lahu.”

Dalalah carries the legal ruling to a case indicated by the wording’s linguistically understood rationale, such as forbidding severe mistreatment of parents from the ban on “uff.”

Thus the former concerns a non-purposive textual implication; the latter, an extension through a rationale immediately evident in language.

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How dalalah differs from isharah

Ibarat, Isharat, Dalalat and Iqtida of Text: Four Routes to Legal Meaning

Isharah yields an incidental yet text-grounded implication, such as paternal attribution implied by “al-mawlud lahu.”

Dalalah carries the legal ruling to a case indicated by the wording’s linguistically understood rationale, such as forbidding severe mistreatment of parents from the ban on “uff.”

Thus the former concerns a non-purposive textual implication; the latter, an extension through a rationale immediately evident in language.