Is it correct to say: "The Qur'an says," or "The Book says," or "The verse says"? And a discussion regarding metaphorical speech.

The questioner : ... The Book says, you know.

The Shaykh : How? How? What did I say?

The questioner : The Book says... the verse that says, and I asked you about this before?

The Shaykh : Yes, this is speech that people do not pay attention to. Whoever says "Allah said," the Book does not say; and the verse is the speech of Allah.
Yes.

The questioner : This Qur'an... Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He)... in the Noble Qur'an.

The Shaykh : What is said here is metaphorical; that this Qur'an, which is the speech of Allah, narrates to you such and such.

The questioner : Do you say it is metaphorical, O Shaykh?

The Shaykh : I say it is metaphorical, but not according to their terminology; rather, according to the terminology where the metaphor in some contexts is the literal truth. Because when they divided speech into literal or metaphorical, they said: the literal is the meaning that comes to mind first when one hears the speech. If one moves away from it to a meaning that does not come to mind first, they call it interpretation (ta'wil). So it is necessary... to the interpretation, in this case, due to the context; as they say, the context is either transmitted or rational. But when the sentence they call metaphorical has the meaning that comes to mind from the sentence being the one called metaphorical, then it is the literal truth. An example of this, from what I have memorized from the words of Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him), is the noble verse: . Here, the meaning they call literal does not come to mind for any Arab; that is, the village in its soil, mountains, and rivers. Rather, what comes to mind from the Qur'anic text is the meaning they call metaphorical. So their naming of such a meaning as metaphorical is a specific terminology that does not... the meaning that is the literal truth in their specific terminology. So what they call metaphorical in some contexts is the literal truth. Now, here, it does not come to mind that the Qur'an is speaking and narrating, but what comes to mind is the meaning I mentioned earlier.
And so, for example, Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) gave another example when an Arab says: "I traveled with the moon." They say it is metaphorical because the moon is in the sky and he is on the earth. But does anyone understand or come to mind that he traveled with the moon beside him, placing his hand in its hand, or similar meanings that are understood if he said: "I traveled with so-and-so" of the humans? Of course not. So the literal meaning corresponds to what is being spoken about in a way that befits and matches reality. Here, "I traveled with the moon" is a metaphor, a metaphor in their terminology. Because what is the literal truth? The literal truth is that they are in one place on one earth, but this meaning does not come to mind at all. And there is only one meaning, which is the meaning he called metaphorical, and it is the literal truth that Allah intended when... , to Him , and so on. So this verse resembles these verses; they call it metaphorical in their terminology, but it is the literal truth according to the people of the Sunnah...
Other than that?