Majāz ʿaqlī includes attributing an action to someone or something that was not its immediate actual performer, because there is a meaningful relation such as authority, causation, or circumstance. The apparent grammatical agent differs from the direct agent in reality.
For instance, “The king built a bridge” may be entirely normal speech even though engineers and workers carried out the construction. The king ordered, financed or supervised the project, and the action is attributed to him by that relation.
This is not the same as a phrase indirectly indicating a character trait, as in kināyah. Here the interpretive question is why an action is ascribed to a person or factor related to its performance.