This axis brings together 1 locus where this verse is used in the books of Muhammad Shahrur, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
{And Lot—We gave him judgment and knowledge, and We saved him from the town that was committing abominations. Indeed, they were an evil, wicked people.}
Reader’s answer
Question
How does Muhammad Shahrur employ The Prophets 74 in his discussion of the town and the conduct of its people?
Shahrur employs the verse within a group of verses about towns to which, or to whose inhabitants, such descriptions as wrongdoing, wickedness, and committing abominations are attributed. Here, he cites the verse to affirm that Lot’s salvation was associated with the town’s “committing abominations” and with its inhabitants being “an evil, wicked people.” However, the available evidence does not explain the meaning of “unilateral deviant conduct,” nor does it state that this description alone is the interpretive cause of the people’s destruction; the presentation is therefore limited to this direct textual connection.
Shahrur cites The Prophets 74 in the context of compiling verses that speak of towns and peoples described as unjust, insolent, ungrateful for blessings, or as committing abominations, and of the punishment, destruction, or salvation associated with this.
Evidence and location
State and Society — p. 87.
Limits of the reading
- The evidence consists of a list of verses from page 87 and does not include the surrounding interpretive passage.
- The evidence does not establish a detailed account of Shahrur’s meaning of “abominations,” nor does it specify what is meant by unilateral conduct.
- This locus alone does not establish a relationship beyond the verse’s co-occurrence with other verses about towns, injustice, and punishment.
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Brief reading
The verse occurs in a narrative context that links the destruction of the people to the corruption and deviation of their conduct, and Lot’s salvation to a logic of moral contrast.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Abominations: 2
- Destruction of the people: 1
- Lot’s salvation: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to a narrative reading that makes deviation a historical cause of destruction.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Loci of use
- State and Society, p. 87: It is adduced as evidence that the town’s unilateral deviant conduct is the cause of Lot’s salvation and the people’s destruction.
- Concept: Abominations
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “{And Lot—We gave him judgment and knowledge, and We saved him from the town that was committing abominations}”
Related books
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