This axis 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
… THIS IS CLEAR MAGIC
Brief reading
The verse is employed as an example of the disbelievers’ reception of the Qur’an as an unseen matter they did not comprehend, in contrast to faith-based submission to it.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Faith-based
Related concepts
- Disbelievers’ stance: 2
- Submission: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It places the stance of denial opposite the stance of submission within a historical context of Qur’anic discourse.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
- Context: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 115: Cited to show that the disbelievers received the Qur’an as an unseen matter and therefore classified it as magic because they could not comprehend it.
- Concept: Disbelievers’ stance
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: “The disbelievers said … {THIS IS CLEAR MAGIC} (Al-Ahqaf 7).”
- The Book and the Qur’an: Cited to show that some Arabs confronted the Qur’an as a truth of the unseen that they did not comprehend, so the disbeliever’s response was that it was magic, while the believer believed in it submissively.
- Concept: Submission
- Function of the verse here: Context
- Textual evidence: “{THEY RAN TO THE TRUTH WHEN IT CAME TO THEM THIS IS CLEAR MAGIC} (Al-Ahqaf 7). Why? And how did the Arabs, believers and disbelievers alike, understand…”
Related books
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