This locus gathers 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
If a wound has touched you, then a wound like it has touched the people. And these days We alternate among people, so that Allah may know those who believe and may take from among you witnesses; and Allah does not love the wrongdoers.
Brief reading
The verse is used to highlight that the witnesses are not confined to the meaning of those who are killed, and that the alternation of power is a changing matter.
Loci
- Political and social
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Witnesses: 2
- Alternation of power: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to a political reading that sees power as neither fixed nor a justification for takfir.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Example: 1
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 76: He cites it as evidence that the term witnesses is not restricted to the dead, because the verse speaks of those who remain alive after the battle being taken as witnesses.
- Concept: Witnesses
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «ذكر من بقي حياً بعد معركة أحد على أنهم شهداء وذلك في قوله – تعالى –: {إِنْ يَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْحٌ… وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنْكُمْ شُهَدَاءَ}»
- Counter-traditional reading: Treating witnessing as confined to the slain
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 185: He uses it to show that power is among the variables, and that authoritarian repression is neither fixed nor a justification for takfir.
- Concept: Alternation of power
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «{وَتِلْكَ الْأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ} (آل عمران ١٤٠).»
Related books
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