The Presence of Metaphor in the Qur'an
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
He says: May Allah reward you. Is there any figurative language in the Qur'an?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Is there any metaphor in the Qur'an?
The Shaykh:
Explain to me what figurative language is and what it means? What is the meaning of figurative language? The figurative language known to the people of rhetoric is that it is, in their view, other than the literal truth, because they divide speech into literal truth and figurative language. Do you say that the Qur'an is not literal truth but rather figurative language? This is difficult.
He says: May Allah reward you. Is there any figurative language in the Qur'an?
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
Is there any metaphor in the Qur'an?
The Shaykh:
Explain to me what figurative language is and what it means? What is the meaning of figurative language? The figurative language known to the people of rhetoric is that it is, in their view, other than the literal truth, because they divide speech into literal truth and figurative language. Do you say that the Qur'an is not literal truth but rather figurative language? This is difficult.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-107-وصية النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:17:31)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.