This axis brings together 1 instance of this verse’s use in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
So be patient, as those of steadfast resolve among the messengers were patient, and do not seek to hasten them. It will be as though, on the Day they see what they are promised, they had remained only an hour of a day. A clear message. Then shall any be destroyed except the defiantly disobedient people?
Brief reading
It is cited as the final instance in his enumeration of the occurrences of “those endowed with” in order to generalize the semantic rule on which his interpretation is based.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Those of steadfast resolve: 2
- Those endowed with: 1
- The semantic rule: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to a chain of linguistic instances on which he relies in inference.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Context: 1
Instances of use
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 148: He cites it as the final instance in his enumeration of the occurrences of “those endowed with” in order to generalize the semantic rule on which his interpretation is based.
- Concept: Those of steadfast resolve
- Function of the verse here: Context
- Textual evidence: “the first of them in al-Baqara 269 and the last of them in al-Ahqaf 35”
Related books
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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