climbed up to the roof by the ladder.' And since it is the aim, it requires 'to' (ilā) and (ḥattā). And since it is a cause and adverb, it requires the 'to' (lām) and 'in' (fī), like in "The sun runs [its course] to a resting-place"(36:38). This is the method; you can make further examples, if you can.

Note

Whichever of these concentric meanings touches more on your aim and is closer to your purpose, advance it and impart it and make the others corroborate it. Your manner of expression will otherwise lack impressiveness and be devoid of rhetorical embellishment.

The Ninth Matter

The Ninth Matter

The highest degree of eloquence, which confounds the faculty of will and simple conceptions, is by the aims, which are one within the other yet in sequence, being numerous; and the inferences, which are interconnected, being in succession; and the basic intentions, which produce a single result, coming together; and the many branches comprising different fruits, or having the potential to produce them. It is like this:

Breadth and grandeur are imparted to speech when the aims that have departed from and are furthest from the ultimate aim are interconnected and they complete each other's deficiences and fulfil their duties to their neighbours. It is as though when one of the aims is positioned, so is the next positioned, then the next and the next, and so on. With their relations being observed in every respect to the right and left, together the aims found the well-constructed palace of the speech; as though they have consulted and employed many intelligences to assist their own; as if each of the clusters of aims is an element participating in the interconnected representations. Just as if an artist puts a black spot on a picture overlying other pictures, the spot will be an eye in one of the pictures, a mole on the face in another, a nostril in another one, and a mouth in another; so too are there such points in elevated speech.