This locus gathers 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as cited

{And remember what is recited in your houses of the signs of God and wisdom. Indeed, God has always been Subtle, All-Aware}

Brief reading

The verse establishes an understanding of wisdom as recited revelation, while also being used to determine the meaning of the houses as the marital home.

Axes

  • Faith-related
  • Linguistic and semantic
  • Legislative
  • Recited wisdom: 2
  • The house: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It is connected to a network that brings together revelation and the social significance of the word house.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Establishing: 1
  • Supporting: 1

Places of use

  • The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 104: He makes it a point of entry for defining wisdom as a revealed and recited revelation, not merely human understanding.
    • Concept: recited wisdom
    • Function of the verse here: Establishing
    • Textual evidence: «{And remember what is recited in your houses of the signs of God and wisdom…} Al-Ahzab 34.»
  • Towards New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 255: He cites it to confirm that the word houses means the woman’s private marital home, not any alternate dwelling chosen by the man.
    • Concept: the house
    • Function of the verse here: Supporting
    • Textual evidence: «And He – تعالى – said in clear terms: {your houses}… And this is also what appears in His address to the wives of the Prophet»

This page is presented within the general methodology of building the atlas.