Some Ans. Questions 2014 by -'Abdu'l-Bahá- 1 Para

For example, in Persian and Arabic it is said that the earth was asleep, spring came, and it awoke; or that the earth was dead, spring came, and it found life again. These expressions are comparisons, analogies, similes, and figurative interpretations in the realm of inner meaning (16:9)

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