mafhūm (concept) — miṣdāq is that which indicates a thing's being true; mafhūm is what is understood from wording
General Technical Meaning
The miṣdāq is that in which a concept holds true — the instance or referent that verifies the mafhūm, standing in standard opposition to the mafhūm.
In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works
In the Muqaddima's direct diagnostic voice, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī locates all exegetical divergence in the miṣdāq to which the verbal mafāhīm apply, never in the mafhūm itself; and he holds that the criterion of a name's true application is the miṣdāq's containing the end and purpose (al-ghāya wa-l-gharaḍ), not frozen outward form. This authorial doctrine goes beyond the general logical sense of miṣdāq as verifier-instance.
Source: al-Mīzān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān
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