This axis gathers 1 location of this verse’s use in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

Verse text as stated

Indeed, God has forbidden both to the disbelievers

Brief reading

He cites it to affirm the separation between Paradise and Hell and that enjoyment is not available to disbelievers.

Axes

  • Faith-based
  • Linguistic and semantic
  • Prohibition of bliss: 2
  • Paradise: 1
  • Hell: 1

Its place in the network of concepts

It serves to regulate the meaning of bliss in the afterlife within the bounds of recompense.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Context: 1

Instances of use

  • The Book and the Qur’an, p. 208: He cites it to affirm the separation between Paradise and Hell in the afterlife and that enjoyment in it is not available to disbelievers.
    • Concept: Prohibition of bliss
    • Function of the verse here: Context
    • Textual evidence: «{And the inhabitants of Hell will call to the inhabitants of Paradise… they will say, “Indeed, God has forbidden both to the disbelievers”} (Al-A‘raf 50).»

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