This axis brings together 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
SAY: God is sufficient as a witness between me and you. Indeed, He has always been, over His servants, All-Aware, All-Seeing.
Brief reading
The verse is used to affirm that testimony means presence and encompassing awareness of the event.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Faith-based
Related concepts
- Testimony: 3
Its place in the network of concepts
It supports the network of concepts that makes testimony a present, not merely verbal, meaning.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 2
Places of use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 295: He uses it to affirm that the witness is the specified present one who witnesses the event, and he analogizes God’s testimony to that.
- Concept: Testimony
- The verse’s function here: Support
- Textual evidence: “And God is a witness over His servants, as He — exalted — said: {SAY: God is sufficient as a witness between me and you …} (Al-Isra 96).”
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 67: He uses it to affirm that testimony means presence and encompassing awareness of the event, and he makes God a witness over the servants.
- Concept: Testimony
- The verse’s function here: Support
- Textual evidence: “And God is a witness over His servants, as the Exalted said: { SAY: God is sufficient as a witness between me and you … } (Al-Isra 96).”
Related books
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