In the same sentence, al-Sakkaki's style of analysis may treat “circumstances” as implicitly resembling a speaking person who communicates information. The subject, circumstances, is stated, while the comparison source, a speaker, is concealed. Attribution of speaking signals that hidden likeness.
The wording is unchanged, but the focus of explanation shifts. The first method studies the verb's transferred sense; the second emphasizes the rhetorical classification of the state as a speaker.
A comparison of theories must therefore identify the clue and specify the subject and source of the implied likeness rather than merely naming a category.