What is the answer to the argument used by those who interpret the attributes figuratively, namely that the Arabic language has a wide range of usages?

Question:
The Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, says: When those who interpret the attributes figuratively (al-mu'awwilah) interpret them, they say that the Arabic language has a wide range of usages, so let it be...

Answer:
Yes. When those who interpret the attributes figuratively interpret them, they say and argue that the Arabic language has a wide range of usages. For example, "hand" can mean the limb, and it can mean a blessing. "Face" also has multiple usages. So how do you respond to this? But we do not turn to other meanings and leave the apparent meaning.
What compels us to divert a word from its apparent meaning to a weaker, distant meaning and be arbitrary? This is not permissible. Even if the language is broad, we take the language by its apparent meaning until evidence indicates that it is other than its apparent meaning. This is because meanings are not all the same; some are apparent, some are not apparent, some are close, and some are distant. So we do not move from the apparent, close meaning to these meanings. This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that it is necessary that this word be established as having meanings. But if they say the word is possible and possible, and there is no evidence for the possibility, this is not permissible. This is stumbling in misguidance. Yes. Al-Qayyim mentioned that ta'wil (figurative interpretation) has four or five conditions, and it is not valid unless they are met. They are mentioned in the book al-Sawa'iq. Yes.