Why can “banā al-amīru al-qaṣra” be majāz ʿaqlī?

Muḥkam, Mutashābih, Kināyah, Taʿrīḍ and Figurative Attribution

• Because the verb has no object
• Because a ruler is always fictional
• Because the builder’s action is attributed to the ruler who commissioned it
• Because it must be metrical poetry