This node gathers 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
and to make lawful for you some of what had been forbidden to you
Brief reading
The verse is used as an example of abrogation occurring between messages, not within a single message.
Nodes
- Legislative
- Narrative and historical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Abrogation: 3
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to defining the scope of abrogation and its boundaries in the history of the messages.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Example: 1
- Support: 1
Usage instances
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 142: He uses it to show that Jesus abrogated some of the prohibitions of the Torah, and thus cites it as evidence that abrogation occurs between messages, not within a single message.
- Concept: Abrogation
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual citation: “Then Jesus came as a messenger to the Children of Israel to say to them {.. and to make lawful for you some of what had been forbidden to you} (Al Imran 50).”
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 90: He makes it evidence for abrogation between messages, and for the fact that Muhammad’s message lightened or modified some rulings of what came before it.
- Concept: Abrogation
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: “By virtue of the words of the Exalted: { and to make lawful for you some of what had been forbidden to you } (Al Imran 50), and Muhammad (peace be upon him) came to abrogate, through his message, some of what was revealed in the message of Moses”
Related books
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