Sometimes the nature of the subject makes a literal reading impossible. The book gives a historical legal illustration involving marriage to a free woman expressed using terms such as “sale,” “gift,” “charity,” or “transfer of ownership.” A free person is not an object of sale; the literal property-transfer meanings therefore do not fit the subject.
«دلالة محل الكلام»
An indication arising from the subject matter itself.
This is a school-specific example requiring the appropriate legal conditions; merely uttering those words does not establish a marriage in every setting. The method is to identify the literal meaning, confirm a meaningful relation, and then find an indicator in custom, the wording, context, the speaker, or the subject matter. The next section concerns particles of meaning.
Final qualification: Where the subject itself decisively fixes one figurative sense, a separate intention to choose that sense is unnecessary. This does not remove other legal requirements of the transaction.