This locus gathers 2 instances of the use of this verse in the books of Muhammad Shahrur, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And let there be among you a community that calls to good, enjoins what is right, and forbids what is wrong; and those are the successful.
Brief reading
The verse establishes an understanding of enjoining right and forbidding wrong as an ethical call, and as a form of institutional opposition in the public sphere.
Axes
- Political and social
- Human and ethical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Enjoining right: 2
- Opposition: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to redefining the social function of daʿwa away from coercion and guardianship.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundational: 2
Instances of use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, pp. 158-161: He takes it as a basis for understanding enjoining right and forbidding wrong as an ethical call free of coercion and without religious guardianship.
- Concept: Enjoining right
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: «We pause at His saying — exalted be He —: {وَلْتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ…}»
- The corresponding traditional reading: He responds to those who made it an exclusive duty of a class of scholars or clerics.
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 163: He makes it the basis for the idea of political opposition as an institutional form of enjoining right and forbidding wrong.
- Concept: Opposition
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: «And from here we understand His saying — exalted be He —: { وَلَٰتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ … }»
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