«ثم منه ما يبتني على التشبيه فتعين التعرض له، فانحصر في الثلاثة»
Some of the subsequent material rests on simile, so it must first be discussed; the study is thus organized into three topics.
The primary discussions are simile (التشبيه), figurative usage (المجاز), and indirect allusion (الكناية). Simile makes a shared attribute apprehensible; majāz transfers usage beyond the original lexical assignment; kināyah directs the audience toward a related meaning.
Simile is treated first because comparison underlies understanding many instances of metaphor. That does not mean every form of majāz is similarity-based; other figurative relations exist and belong in the later discussion.