Four Types of Rational Figurative Predication: Quranic and Nondeclarative Examples

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• What criterion yields the four types of rational figurative predication?
• How is “أَنْبَتَ الرَّبِيعُ الْبَقْلَ” classified?
• Why is “شباب الزمان” lexically figurative?
• What is the lexical status of “أَحْيَا الْأَرْضَ شَبَابُ الزَّمَانِ”?
• Which type is “أَنْبَتَ الْبَقْلَ شَبَابُ الزَّمَانِ”?
• How is “أَحْيَا الْأَرْضَ الرَّبِيعُ” classified?
• Why is “أحيا الأرض” a lexical figurative usage?
• Where is the figurative feature in Type 1 if both words are literal?
• Why do the combinations number exactly four?
• What does “وهو في القرآن كثير” affirm?
• To what is the increase attributed in “زَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَانًا”?
• What relation explains the attribution of slaughter to Pharaoh?
• What is Satan’s relation to the removal of clothing?
• What relation underlies attribution in “يَوْمًا يَجْعَلُ الْوِلْدَانَ شِيبًا”?
• What relation explains “أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا”?
• Which pairing correctly distinguishes cause from time?
• What does figurative predication in nondeclarative speech show?
• What figurative attribution is illustrated by the command to Hāmān?
• In “لَيْتَ النَّهْرَ جَارٍ,” what properly flows?
• What remains analyzable in “أَصَلَاتُكَ تَأْمُرُكَ” despite its interrogative form?
• What distinguishes rational from lexical figurative usage?
• What specifically distinguishes Types 2 and 4?
• Why does nondeclarative form not preclude rational figurative predication?
• Acknowledging rational figurative predication in the Quran is NOT equivalent to what?
• What is the next source section after these divisions and illustrations?
• Which expression illustrates lexical and rational figurative usage together?
• Because both sides of “أنبت الربيع البقل” are literal, its predication must also be literal.
• In “أحيا الأرض الربيع,” “aḥyā” is figurative and “al-rabīʿ” literal.
• Because “يا هامان ابن لي صرحا” is a command, its internal attribution cannot be analyzed.
• Treating earth as the place from which burdens emerge explains the indirect attribution in “أخرجت الأرض أثقالها.”