The outward sense is grounded in language, syntax, and context. Discussion of the inward dimension can concern the deeper lesson or moral effect of that sense without negating it. A personal reflection, spiritual allusion, and established interpretation are not the same kind of claim.
An individual may hear a warning and examine their own conduct; that is a reasonable ethical response, not proof that the verse has no other linguistic or historical meaning. Taking moral lessons from a Qur’anic narrative does not turn its actual reported events into an invented allegory.
A restrained inward reflection is compatible with the wording and established teaching and is not presented as a definitive transmitted explanation without evidence.