This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in the books of Muhammad Shahrur, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the Verse as Cited
The hypocrite men and hypocrite women are of one another: they enjoin what is wrong and forbid what is right
Reader’s Answer
Question
Where does the verse appear, what distinction does its inclusion indicate in Shahrur’s work, and what function does it serve in his argument?
The verse appears in a table in Shahrur’s Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism (p. 164), among multiple verses. The evidence establishes that it describes hypocrite men and women as enjoining what is wrong and forbidding what is right, in contrast to the inclusion in the same table of Qur’an 9:71, which describes believers as enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong. However, the excerpt alone does not establish that this constitutes a fully developed argument about “collective conduct” or about the “inversion” of standards as a term used by Shahrur.
Shahrur includes Qur’an 9:67 in a table on page 164 of Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, and the verse presents hypocrite men and women as enjoining what is wrong and forbidding what is right.
Evidence and Location
Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism — p. 164.
Limits of the Reading
- The excerpt is tabular evidence establishing the inclusion of the verse and its text; it contains no prose explanation by Shahrur of its evidentiary function.
- The evidence alone does not establish that Shahrur formulates the “inversion of what is right and what is wrong” as a term or definition of hypocrisy.
- The excerpt does not establish an independent claim about collective conduct or about the reason for assembling these verses in the argument.
- The contrast here is limited to the two verses included in the same table, not to a verbal resemblance outside this location.
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Brief Reading
It is used to distinguish hypocrisy as an inversion of what is right and what is wrong in collective conduct.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Political and social
Related Concepts
- Hypocrisy: 2
- What is right and what is wrong: 1
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It links the ethics of action to the community’s stance toward truth and falsehood.
Role of the Verse in the Argument
- Distinction: 1
Instances of Use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 164: He places it alongside verses concerning believers to distinguish the direction of hypocrisy as an inversion of what is right and what is wrong.
- Concept: hypocrisy
- Function of the verse here: distinction
- Textual evidence: “Al-Tawbah (67) | {The hypocrite men and hypocrite women… enjoin what is wrong and forbid what is right}”
Related Books
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