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What is the answer to one who argues that there is figurative language in the Qur'an by citing the saying of the Exalted: (So they found therein a wall that was about to collapse)!

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, one of the teachers who holds that there is figurative language in the Qur'an argued with us by citing the saying of the Exalted:
And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so al-Khidh r restored it.فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارًا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُ
[Al-Kahf 18:77]


Answer:
My brother, the will of every thing is according to its nature. So the will of the wall to collapse means it inclined, it inclined toward falling, it inclined toward falling. The will of a human is one thing, and the will of the wall is another. Every thing has a will according to its nature. This is the defect of those who say there is figurative language; they do not know will except in humans. They do not know will except in humans, even though every thing has a will according to its nature. The wall has a will; it wants to collapse, meaning it inclined toward falling. So will is inclination. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [923 -1024] ما الجواب على من يحتج بأن في القرآن مجاز بقوله سبحانه: (فوجدا فيها جدارا يريد أن ينقض)! — youtube.com

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