يَنْزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا
He removed their clothing from them. (Al-Aʿrāf 7:27)
Satan's prompting was causally involved in the event experienced by Adam and his wife. The removal is therefore assigned to Satan through the role of enticement and instigation.
The causal intermediary explains the predication. This should not become a careless rule that every attribution to a cause is automatically figurative: the intended relation and contextual indication remain necessary.
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Four Types of Rational Figurative Predication: Quranic and Nondeclarative Examples
يَنْزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا
He removed their clothing from them. (Al-Aʿrāf 7:27)
Satan's prompting was causally involved in the event experienced by Adam and his wife. The removal is therefore assigned to Satan through the role of enticement and instigation.
The causal intermediary explains the predication. This should not become a careless rule that every attribution to a cause is automatically figurative: the intended relation and contextual indication remain necessary.