This axis gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the Verse as Cited
On the Day you see it, every nursing mother will be oblivious to what she nursed, and every pregnant woman will deliver her burden…
Reader’s Response
Question
How does Shahrur employ Hajj 2, and what is the significance of pregnancy and delivery in his distinction?
Shahrur cites Hajj 2 among verses through which he connects the emergence of the newborn to a process that begins with fertilization, then pregnancy, then delivery. The function of the verse in this passage is not to establish synonymy or an independent linguistic distinction between pregnancy and delivery, but rather to support his argument regarding the stages of reproduction and his definition of the birth mother and the mother in this context.
Shahrur cites Hajj 2 within a group of verses containing pregnancy or delivery, treating it as evidence that the emergence of the newborn comes after fertilization, pregnancy, and delivery. In this passage, Shahrur bases his distinction between the begetter and the birth mother on the distribution of stages: for him, the begetter’s role ends with fertilization, whereas the birth mother is the possessor of the ovum who undergoes pregnancy and delivery after fertilization; he then describes her as the mother within this process. Shahrur makes the union of the ovum, pregnancy, and delivery in a single female a condition for describing her, in this account, as a birth mother and as a mother who carries and delivers.
Citation and Location
Islam and Faith — p. 181.
Limits of the Reading
- The citation does not state that pregnancy and delivery are synonymous or non-synonymous; therefore, no linguistic claim of this kind should be attributed to it.
- The citation presents Hajj 2 within a list of evidences and does not provide the verse alone with an independent interpretation beyond its function in the stated argument.
- The description of the relationship between pregnancy and delivery here is an ordering of stages in Shahrur’s construction, not a judgment derived from verbal similarity between verses.
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Brief Reading
Shahrur cites it to demonstrate the correlation between pregnancy and delivery as two distinct stages in the reading of the Wise Revelation.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related Concepts
- Delivery: 2
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It offers an example of the semantic separation between two successive stages.
The Verse’s Role in the Argument
- Example: 1
Instances of Use
- Islam and Faith, p. 181: He cites it to demonstrate the correlation between pregnancy and delivery as two distinct stages in the reading of the Wise Revelation.
- Concept: delivery
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual citation: “{On the Day you see it, every nursing mother will be oblivious… and every pregnant woman will deliver her burden…} (Hajj 2).”
Related Books
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