Does the Quran speak in symbols and metaphors?

And then we and then that and that gives us the basis for human rights and these things that we value today that unfortunately atheistic secularism secular atheism is getting rid of underneath our feet and then we'll be left with nothing but nihilism and this bleak moral worldview. So that's how I understand uh these stories. I me see just to kind of uh just um kind of my my because I'm just hearing that and and where I stand from.

So I so several things you've said like uh the Quran obviously Rush somebody I'm definitely in line with his way of thinking and that the Quran speaks in symbols it speaks in metaphors it speaks in uh all these things I totally agree and everything you've said about God uh this kind of anything anthropomorphic or things like that it's not that these things were accidentally said but it's because humans could relate to it especially I would feel especially the people of the day and age and by extension others as well from different uh times.

Um right now and the stories thing is as Uvel Harrari has kind of like made very clear in his book as well and I totally loved his book Sapiens that look human beings what distinguishes us is stories and I totally agree that that is true because the stories they they carry much more than what people think when when we say stories sounds like like a bedtime story but it means myths and psychosocial narratives and everything entities like that and and I love the example he gives where he says um he says you know if you put a uh in one of his interviews he says if you put a monkey on an island

and you put a human on an island and you had to bet on who would survive uh he says I would bet on the monkey the monkey would outs survive the the human but if you put a thousand men on an island and a thousand monkeys the thousand men would outs survive the you know they would accomplish all sorts and he says and why is that it's not just because of the number because it's the power of stories the power of myth now [snorts] uh okay so with that in mind coming to this you see so the stories in the Quran and and I have said by the way in my Monday nights with mui and repetitively

that scripture is more kind of art in many ways I I've said that that I do agree with that understanding and Karen Armstrong speaks of the art of scripture. So, but when we're saying like the flood of Noah or let's say Abraham or Moses or Jesus or Adam or Adam or Adam or Adam, are we saying these are entirely fictitious events uh and and people?

Is this what we're is this what you're uh purporting? Is this or just to be clear on where you stand on it? Okay. So in my class I actually someone asked me a very good question. They said I was now I was using the Islamic philosophers. I didn't say this was my view but sure. Okay. But no this is my this is my now we're behind the scenes and cuz it's [laughter] just it's just me and you here. There's no audience or anything.