This hub 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 quoted
Say, if you conceal what is in your breasts or reveal it, Allah knows it; and He knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth, and Allah is Powerful over all things.
Brief reading
The verse is used to establish a reading that makes the breast the locus of thoughts and reflection, and affirms God’s immediate knowledge of them.
Axes
- Faith-related
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Breast: 2
- Divine knowledge: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to regulating the relationship between the human inner life and divine knowledge.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 2
Pages in the atlas that refer to this verse
These links gather the pages that rely on the verse or make it part of the argument within the atlas.
Related claim atoms
Places of use
- Islam and Faith, pp. 248-249: he makes it the basis for his reading of the breast as the brain and the locus of thinking, and affirms that God knows thoughts immediately.
- Concept: breast
- Function of the verse here: establishing
- Textual evidence: «- {Say, if you conceal what is in your breasts or reveal it, Allah knows it…} (Aal Imran 29).»
- Islam and Faith, p. 249: he cites it to establish that what is in the breasts is the field of direct divine knowledge, and that revealing and concealing relate to what human beings possess of thoughts and ideas.
- Concept: divine knowledge
- Function of the verse here: establishing
- Textual evidence: «And we see that we cannot understand it precisely except in light of God’s saying: - {Say, if you conceal what is in your breasts or reveal it, Allah knows it…} (Aal Imran 29).»
Related books
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