This thematic entry gathers 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.
The Text of the Verse as Cited
That is because God causes the night to enter into the day and causes the day to enter into the night, and because God is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.
Reader’s Response
Question
Where does Shahrur cite Hajj 61, how does he distinguish through it the meaning of divine hearing and sight, and what function does it serve in his argument about witnessing?
The citation appears in the book Islam and Humanity, without a more precise location being specified in the evidence. Shahrur makes the verse an example of God’s possession of hearing and sight without anthropomorphism, then connects this to his interpretation of shahīd as the present and knowing one; thus, the verse serves to support this interpretive line.
Shahrur cites Hajj 61 in his discussion of God’s possession of hearing and sight without anthropomorphism. He links divine hearing and sight to knowledge of what is heard and seen, in the context of his explanation of how God is a witness.
Evidence and Location
Islam and Humanity — location not specified.
Limits of the Reading
- The evidence does not specify the page number or chapter within Islam and Humanity.
- The evidence does not explain the other expressions in the verse, especially the entering of night into day and vice versa.
- The evidence does not establish an interpretive relationship between this verse and other verses except within the scope of its association, in the same passage, with the attributes of hearing and sight.
- The evidence does not establish a detailed terminological distinction between shahīd, samīʿ, and baṣīr that goes beyond defining the witness as the present and knowing one and linking it to knowledge.
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Brief Reading
The verse is used to establish that divine witnessing is understood as auditory and visual knowledge without anthropomorphism.
Themes
- Faith-related
- Linguistic and semantic
Related Concepts
- Hearing and sight: 2
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It is connected to the concept of divine knowledge as Shahrur reads it in Qur’anic language.
The Verse’s Role in the Argument
- Support: 1
Contexts of Use
- Islam and Humanity: He uses it to interpret divine witnessing as auditory and visual knowledge without anthropomorphism.
- Concept: hearing and sight
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: “It has appeared in many verses that God possesses the attributes of hearing and sight without anthropomorphism, as in His saying, exalted is He: { That is because God causes the night to enter into the day … and because God is All-Hearing, All-Seeing } (Hajj 61).”
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