Kināyah communicates a meaning through a recognized association or implication. Taʿrīḍ allows general wording to allude to a particular audience or occasion. Majāz ʿaqlī attributes an action to something associated with its agent, such as its cause, place, or time. These are distinct explanatory devices.
وَاخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ
“Lower to them the wing of humility.”
The passage calls for humility and tenderness toward parents; it does not command a literal bodily wing movement.
A general admonition may, through context, address a particular historical audience indirectly. A sentence attributing an action to its setting can raise a different issue of figurative attribution. Classification must follow the actual mechanism, not the broad label “figurative.”