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Mostafa Malekian holds that the criterion for distinguishing the literal from the figurative meaning of an utterance is the understanding of its original audience. Yet questions about the uniformity of that audience's understanding in the Prophet's era, and the speaker's ability to manipulate word meanings, challenge this hermeneutical principle.
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