This is a lexical entry that gathers the technical meaning of this term in Shahrur’s thought across his various books, and connects its multiple usages.
This entry belongs to the Shahrurian lexicon. For reading by theme, one may refer to Shahrur’s major themes and shared concepts.
The meaning in Shahrur
Prohibition is the attribution of prohibition in the sense of binding religious obligation to God alone; no human, authority, or state possesses it. Through it, one understands a doctrinal limit that distinguishes what God has made prohibited from what people establish as laws or regulatory orders.
Distinctions
- It does not coincide with human legislation; legislation is the domain of lawmaking and regulation, whereas prohibition is a divine prerogative
- It is not equivalent to administrative or legal prohibition; these are tools of worldly control and do not confer on a thing the status of religious prohibition.
Places in his books
- A Guide to Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation: Shahrur makes prohibition a purely divine prerogative, and prevents its transfer to human beings or the state. In this way, he separates religious prohibition from the tools of forbidding, commanding, and prohibiting in the legal sphere
What is adjacent to it and different from it
- Prohibition and human legislation are two separate domains
- The separation of the divine and the human in legislation and the message
- Restricting prohibition to God