This axis brings together 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
PHARAOH SAID, “YOU HAVE BELIEVED IN HIM BEFORE I GAVE YOU PERMISSION. THIS IS INDEED A PLOT YOU PLOTTED IN THE CITY TO DRIVE ITS PEOPLE OUT OF IT, BUT YOU WILL SOON COME TO KNOW.”
Brief reading
The verse is used to show the temporal precedence of faith over permission, and to present Pharaoh’s objection as an objection to defying authority.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Temporal sequence: 2
- Permission: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the time of action and to the relationship between authority and the act of faith.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 2
Places of use
- The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 1, p. 129: Cited to show that faith occurred before permission, that is, that “before” establishes a temporal precedence between the two mentioned acts.
- Concept: temporal sequence
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: “{PHARAOH SAID, ‘YOU HAVE BELIEVED IN HIM BEFORE I GAVE YOU PERMISSION…’} (Al-A‘raf: 123)”
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 129: Used to show that Pharaoh objected to the magicians’ defiance of his authority, not to the principle of faith itself.
- Concept: permission
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: “{PHARAOH SAID, ‘YOU HAVE BELIEVED IN HIM BEFORE I GAVE YOU PERMISSION’}”
Related books
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