What Is Meant Here
This entry belongs to the Shahrur Lexicon. Wisdom, in the documented passage from Shahrur’s reading, is the injunctions. This designation occurs within his reading of the verse that brings together the Book, wisdom, the Torah, and the Gospel.
The accompanying evidence does not establish that wisdom is another name for the prophetic Sunna or hadith; therefore, this entry does not make either of these equivalences part of its definition.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
In addressing God’s saying, ﴿and He will teach him the Book, wisdom, the Torah, and the Gospel﴾, Shahrur distinguishes among the items mentioned and states explicitly that the Book is legislation and that wisdom is the injunctions.
He also cites Qur’an 16:125 in the context of his discussion of the method of calling: ﴿Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good exhortation﴾, without the accompanying evidence providing a new definition of wisdom in this context.
The Atlas’s Explanation
This entry is limited to the explicitly stated meaning: wisdom = the injunctions in this passage of Shahrur’s project. Wisdom is therefore not merged with the Book; the text itself mentions them separately and assigns a different designation to each.
For a contextual reading of the verse, see Al Imran 48, and for the occurrence of the term in the context of calling, see Al-Nahl 125.
Synthetic Inference
The distinction between “the Book” and “wisdom” in this evidence indicates that Shahrur does not use the two terms in the same sense in his interpretation of the verse: for him, the Book is legislation, while wisdom is injunctions. This inference is confined to this textual designation and is not extended to all uses of the word without additional evidence.
Open Question and Limits of the Reading
The page is connected to a line of discussion concerning the Sunna and the messengerly and prophetic Sunna, while the following foundational links remain in place:
- Qur’anic wisdom is not the prophetic Sunna
- The Sunna is not a second revelation
- The Sunna is not a source parallel to the Revelation
However, the evidence available for this review does not include a direct text establishing a relationship between wisdom and the prophetic Sunna or hadith; accordingly, the entry does not resolve this issue. Moreover, Al-Nisa 85–86 is an existing link on the page, but the material attached to it does not address wisdom.