ثُمَّ قَالَ: رَأَيْتُ الْكِتَابَ يَدْعُو صَاحِبَهُ إِلَى الْعَمَلِ؛ فَهَلْ تَكْفِي الْقِرَاءَةُ بِلَا أَثَرٍ؟
He continued: “I saw the book calling its reader to action; can reading without effect be enough?”
A book calling its reader to act attributes a human action to an inanimate object. In ordinary non-fantastic prose it supports a personifying or implicit-metaphor analysis. The final question plausibly denies that reading without consequence is sufficient.
The image and the closing question serve a shared aim: moving the reader from passive reading toward meaningful action. A critical answer should state the figurative cue and explain how the question grows from the preceding argument.