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 faces that Day will be grim, * expecting that a crushing calamity will be inflicted upon them.
Reader’s Answer
Question
How does Shahrur read the Almighty’s statement, “expecting that a crushing calamity will be inflicted upon them,” in the context of the meaning of ẓann?
Shahrur cites Resurrection 24–25 as an example of ẓann occurring in the sense of certainty, rather than doubt. In his presentation, the word belongs to verbs that may be used for a meaning and its opposite; the grim faces are certain of the “crushing calamity” awaiting them.
Shahrur employs Resurrection 24–25 within a list of textual proofs in which he holds that ẓann comes in the sense of certainty.
Evidence and Location
the Book and the Qur’an — p. 275.
Limits of the Reading
- This entry documents Shahrur’s use of the verse to argue that ẓann may mean certainty; this evidence alone does not establish a complete method for determining the meaning in every Qur’anic occurrence.
- No additional interpretive relationship should be constructed between this verse and other instances of ẓann merely because they share the term; the documented commonality here is Shahrur’s inclusion of it in his list.
- The accompanying context is excerpted from a broader passage and therefore does not permit reconstruction of the details of his argument or discussion of its alternatives.
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Brief Reading
The verse supports the meaning of supposition when it approaches the certainty generated by severity and threat.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Linguistic and semantic
Related Concepts
- Supposition: 2
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It is connected to expanding the faith-based semantic range of the term ẓann in the Qur’anic context.
Role of the Verse in the Argument
- Support: 1
Locations of Use
- the Book and the Qur’an, p. 275: He employs it to show that ẓann may occur in the sense of certainty generated by severity and threat.
- Concept: supposition
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: “And His statement: {And faces that Day will be grim, * expecting that a crushing calamity will be inflicted upon them} (Resurrection 24–25).”
Related Books
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