This locus gathers 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that arise around it.

The verse text as cited

O you who believe, do not consume usury, doubled and redoubled…

Brief reading

The verse is invoked to clarify the limit of prohibited usury and to emphasize its doubled forms of increase.

Loci

  • Legislative
  • Doubled usury: 2
  • Prohibition of usury: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It serves the conceptual network that sets the prohibition at the form of harmful increase.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Support: 2

Places of use

  • Islam and the Human Being: He takes it as the limit that makes clear when a transaction turns into prohibited usury.
    • Concept: doubled usury
    • Function of the verse here: support
    • Textual evidence: «{ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَأْكُلُوا الرِّبَا أَصْعَافًا مُصَاعَفَةً … } (آل عمران ١٣٠)»
  • Islam and Faith, p. 83: He cites it to affirm the prohibition of usury and to emphasize its doubled forms of increase.
    • Concept: prohibition of usury
    • Function of the verse here: support
    • Textual evidence: «- {يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَأْكُلُوا الرِّبَا أَضْعَافًا مُضَاعَفَةً…} (آل عمران ١٣٠).»

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