Al-A‘raf 31

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This node gathers 3 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The Verse as Cited

O Children of Adam, take your adornment at every place of worship

Brief Reading

The verse establishes an understanding of adornment and clothing within an arrangement that removes hardship, and defines extravagance as exceeding the permitted limit, even in what is lawful.

Axes

  • Legislative
  • Human and ethical
  • Methodological
  • Adornment: 3
  • Extravagance: 2
  • Clothing: 1
  • The permitted limit: 1
  • Covering: 1

Its Place in the Conceptual Network

It is linked to regulating what is permissible within limits of use and to distinguishing embellishment from extravagance.

The Verse’s Role in the Argument

  • Support: 1
  • Foundation: 1
  • Example: 1

Pages in the atlas that refer to this verse

These links collect the pages that rely on the verse or make it part of the argument within the atlas.

Instances of Use

  • Islam and Faith, p. 49: He understands it within the rulings of clothing as an arrangement that lifts hardship from people, not merely as moral exhortation.
    • Concept: Adornment
    • Function of the verse here: Support
    • Textual evidence: «{… take your adornment at every place of worship}»
  • A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 50: He makes it an example of how extravagance can occur in what is lawful when one exceeds the permitted limit.
    • Concept: Extravagance
    • Function of the verse here: Foundation
    • Textual evidence: «In the lawful, we find in His saying تعالى: { O Children of Adam, take your adornment … and do not be extravagant … } (al-A‘raf 31).»
  • Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 290: He uses it together with the Light verse to connect spatial adornment with the covering required in women’s clothing.
    • Concept: Adornment
    • Function of the verse here: Example
    • Textual evidence: «{ O Children of Adam, take your adornment at every place of worship } (al-A‘raf 31)»

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