The source reduces the prerequisites for balagha in discourse to two fundamental tasks.
1. الاحتراز عن الخطأ في تأدية المعنى المراد
Avoiding error when communicating the intended meaning.
2. تمييز الكلام الفصيح عن غيره
Discriminating fasih discourse from non-fasih discourse.
The first concerns how the intended meaning is communicated in its setting. The second concerns whether the linguistic vehicle is fasih. Correct wording cannot repair a serious mismatch with the occasion; appropriate intent cannot make a linguistically defective formulation eloquent.