Elevation of discourse concerns how suitably the utterance achieves excellence and acceptance through attention to the appropriate consideration. It is not merely the music of verbal sound; it concerns meaning-bearing expression.
The ranks of balagha have an upper end at inimitability, various intermediate degrees and a lower limit. Grammatical correctness is distinct from attaining the highest rhetorical standards.
Additional literary beauties may enrich discourse after fasaha and appropriateness are secured; they cannot substitute for those essential requirements.
The following lesson opens al-balagha fi al-mutakallim on printed page 66.