In “أحيا الأرض,” revival does not mean that the earth receives a human soul. It describes its becoming green, productive, and lively.
The word “revived” is extended from actual life-giving to the emergence of a comparable state. Thus the predicate itself is lexically figurative, unlike “anbata” in the first example.
The lexical extension in “aḥyā” is one analytical step; assigning that revived condition to the “youth of time” is a separate predicational step. The same sentence can contain both.
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Four Types of Rational Figurative Predication: Quranic and Nondeclarative Examples
In “أحيا الأرض,” revival does not mean that the earth receives a human soul. It describes its becoming green, productive, and lively.
The word “revived” is extended from actual life-giving to the emergence of a comparable state. Thus the predicate itself is lexically figurative, unlike “anbata” in the first example.
The lexical extension in “aḥyā” is one analytical step; assigning that revived condition to the “youth of time” is a separate predicational step. The same sentence can contain both.