Mutashābih passages require a disciplined approach where meaning, referent, or modality is not immediately transparent. Majāz ʿaqlī, by contrast, concerns the rhetorical attribution of an action to someone or something related to its direct performance.
These categories must not be collapsed. One concerns interpretive indeterminacy; the other concerns how an action is ascribed.
In ordinary usage, saying “the ruler built the city” need not mean that the ruler physically laid every stone. The action is attributed through authority or causation. The relationship between the governing agent and the actual performers makes this attribution intelligible.