This hub gathers 3 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
وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمْرًا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمُ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ …
Brief reading
The verse is used to distinguish a ruling tied to a specific incident from any coercive generalization, and to connect judgment to revealed law.
Hubs
- Legislative
- Methodological
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Choice: 2
- Judgment: 2
- Context: 2
- Specific incident: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters the network that distinguishes the particular from the general, and judgment from personalization.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Distinction: 2
- Foundation: 1
Instances of use
- The State and Society, p. 24: He uses it to confirm that the verse’s negation of choice does not mean eternal determinism, but rather that it is a legislative command issued after a specific incident.
- Concept: choice
- Function of the verse here: distinction
- Textual witness: «{وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمْرًا…} (al-Ahzab 36).»
- The corresponding traditional reading: understanding the verse as evidence for fated, coercive predestination
- The State and Society, p. 233: He cites it to argue that the authority of judgment is tied to the revealed law, not to the persons of judges.
- Concept: judgment
- Function of the verse here: foundation
- Textual witness: «And that was delegated from the station of messengerhood in His, Exalted is He, قوله: {وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ …} (al-Ahzab 36)»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 232: He distinguishes between the specific context related to Zaynab’s incident and turning the verse into a general law, and rejects the jurists’ generalization of it.
- Concept: context
- Function of the verse here: distinction
- Textual witness: «We read His, Exalted is He, قوله: {وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلَا مُؤْمِنَةٍ…} (al-Ahzab 36), and this verse, in its context, speaks about a particular event with the Messenger and Zaynab… but it is not legislation; rather, it is narrative»
- The corresponding traditional reading: according to the notion of the eminent masters among the scholars, on the basis that scholars are the heirs of the prophets, it became permissible for them to marry whomever they wished by their own decision, using this verse
Related books
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