This page explains a conceptual relationship between two poles within Shahrur’s thought, and how this relationship operates in the construction of meaning.
Within a Broader Family
This formulation belongs to the field of the nature of the Wise Revelation and the place of contemporary reading within it. Its witness pertains to a specific angle, while the family presents the breadth of the idea between the fixity of the text, the renewal of understanding, and the rejection of reducing it to history.
Meaning of the Relationship
This relationship indicates that the Wise Revelation is presented as the only fixed divine revelation, but its understanding is not rigid; rather, it changes and renews according to reading and context. The fixity here belongs to the text in itself, whereas movement is linked to the human mode of understanding it, which makes meaning open to renewal without compromising the origin of revelation.
The Two Poles of the Relationship
- First pole: the Wise Revelation
- Relationship: is the only fixed revelation, and its understanding
- Second pole: is dynamic
Evidence
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism through The Qur’an Is the Only Revelation and Is Understood Within the Fixity of the Text and the Dynamism of Understanding
- Witness: The Qur’an Is the Only Revelation and Is Understood Within the Fixity of the Text and the Dynamism of Understanding brings together this passage between the Qur’an as the only revelation and the fixity of the text and the dynamism of understanding to establish that the divine source is one and that the text is fixed in itself
Its Impact on the Knowledge Map
This relationship gains importance because it places the Wise Revelation at the center of an epistemic vision that balances fixity in the source and transformation in interpretation. This connects the Qur’anic text, as a single fixed origin, to the path of renewed interpretation, making the concept capable of serving a broader semantic construction within the intellectual map, especially in issues based on distinguishing between the sanctity of the text and the changeability of understanding.