This axis gathers one place 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
Indeed, those who harm Allah and His Messenger — Allah has cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating punishment * And those who harm the believing men and believing women for what they have not earned have certainly borne slander and manifest sin
Brief reading
Shahrur invokes the two verses to clarify that harming the Messenger has a stronger effect because it cuts one off from mercy, and that harm also extends to harming believers in general.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Faith-based
Related concepts
- harm: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It connects harm to the station of mercy and to responsibility for action toward the Messenger and the believers.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Usage locations
- Islam and Faith, p. 255: He cites them to clarify that harming the Messenger has a stronger effect because it cuts one off from mercy, whereas harm falls within harming the believers generally.
- Concept: harm
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: “The two verses then come down immediately afterward: {Indeed, those who harm Allah and His Messenger… and those who harm the believers…} (al-Ahzab 57-58).”
Related books
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