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«وتقع في الاصطلاح وصفًا للكلام والمتكلم»
In technical usage, balāghah describes utterances and speakers.

Unlike fasāḥah, the standard classification here does not establish balāghah of an isolated word as a separate technical category. A word may be faṣīḥ, while a complete utterance may be balīgh.

The difference follows from the decisive condition: rhetorical excellence includes choosing a complete form of expression that suits the communicative circumstances. Such appropriateness normally concerns utterances and the speaker's capacity to formulate them.

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What can be described as balīgh?

Speaker Eloquence, Rhetorical Speech, and Contextual Appropriateness

«وتقع في الاصطلاح وصفًا للكلام والمتكلم»
In technical usage, balāghah describes utterances and speakers.

Unlike fasāḥah, the standard classification here does not establish balāghah of an isolated word as a separate technical category. A word may be faṣīḥ, while a complete utterance may be balīgh.

The difference follows from the decisive condition: rhetorical excellence includes choosing a complete form of expression that suits the communicative circumstances. Such appropriateness normally concerns utterances and the speaker's capacity to formulate them.