وفي الكلام: خلوصه من ضعف التأليف وتنافر الكلمات والتعقيد مع فصاحتها.
A complete utterance must use individually sound words and avoid defective composition (Ḍaʿf al-Taʾlīf), clashes between words (Tanāfur al-Kalimāt), and obscurity of construction or sense (Taʿqīd).
Two levels of evaluation now apply: the individual words must be sound, and their combination must also be effective.
Thus every word in a sentence may be individually acceptable, while the sentence as a whole is not faṣīḥ because the defect lies in their arrangement or relationship.