Metaphor in the Noble Qur'an

Question:
The first message in this episode was sent to the program from one of the Maghreb Arab countries, as the handwriting suggests, though the sender did not mention his name. This message contained two questions. In his first question, he asks: Is there metaphor in the Noble Qur'an? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon His Messenger, upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow his guidance. As for what follows:
The correct view is that there is no metaphor in it of the kind meant by the scholars of rhetoric and literature, which is that it is permissible to deny something of what it was named for. Rather, what is permissible in it is the expansiveness of the language. So, metaphor (majaz) is the source of the verb jaaza, which means to be permissible, just as one says qala, which means to speak a saying. The meaning is that it is permissible in the language to say, "I asked a village," or "I asked a caravan," or to say, "the wing of humiliation," or something similar, as it came in the Noble Qur'an. This is due to the breadth of the language and its not being restricted to specific terms in such cases.
So, the point is that it is a permissibility (jawaz) in the sense of being allowed, as opposed to being prohibited. It is not the permissibility that the scholars of eloquence and rhetoric hold, which is that it is valid to deny it. Yes.

The presenter : May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.