actually applies to it; otherwise, the consequence would be that everything referred to in the language as salah (ritual prayer), zakah (almsgiving), tayammum (dry ablution), fasting, sale, lease, or pledge could, on that basis alone, be brought under the juristic designation. On such an assumption, no difference would remain between transferred terms and those that have not been transferred. Rather, we say: the default is that no transfer has occurred unless it is proven. Moreover, once a transfer is established, the default (1) is that this particular instance is not included under (2) the transferred term until it is confirmed (3) that it does, in fact, fall within it after the transfer.

I said: The foundation (4) of these three discussions—and everything in them where I preface a remark with “I said”—derives from the words of Shaykh Taqi al-Din, which he formulated after the debate (5).