Their essential meanings are comparisons that bring distant objects close like a telescope and however they may be it does not damage their veracity and truthfulness. Moreover, all those stories are comparisons or parables. Purely to enable people in general to understand, what is properly communicated without words is put into words, and immaterial and abstract matters are represented in material form.

THIRD AIM

After receiving this decisive and convincing answer to his second question,(21) the representative of all the people of misguidance was reduced to silence, but then asked the following third question.

“Phrases in the Qur’an like The Best of Creators,(22) and The Most Compassionate of the Compassionate,(23) suggest that there are other creators and compassionate ones. And you also say, ‘the Creator of all the worlds possesses endless perfections. United in Him are the utmost levels of every kind of perfection.’ Whereas, the perfections of beings are known through their opposites: if there was no pain, pleasure would not be a sort of perfection; if there was no darkness, light could not be proved to exist; if there was no separation, there would be no pleasure in union, and so on, would there?”

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(21) That is, the question at the beginning of the Second Aim, not the small questions at the end of the Conclusion.
(22) Qur’an, 23:14, etc.
(23) Qur’an, 7:151, etc.