This locus brings together 3 instances of Muhammad Shahrur’s use of this verse in his books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
He said, “Ritual impurity and wrath from your Lord have indeed befallen you. Do you dispute with me over names that you and your fathers have given, for which Allah has sent down no authority? Then wait; indeed, I am with you among those who wait.”
Brief reading
The verse is read as an example of disputation over names and multiplicity, and as showing that shirk rests on human designations with no authority.
Themes
- Narrative and historical
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Polytheism: 3
- Disputation: 2
- Names: 1
- Shirk: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to breaking down polytheism into multiple names and domains with no divine origin.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of heritage: 1
- Support: 1
- Example: 1
Instances of use
- The State and Society, p. 183: He cites it to say that the names of the gods among the people of Hud were merely human designations without divine authority, within the framework of the development of shirk.
- Concept: Polytheism
- Function of the verse here: Critique of heritage
- Textual evidence: “Proof of this is His – تعالى – saying about Hud: {He said, ‘Ritual impurity and wrath from your Lord have indeed befallen you …‘} (Al-A‘raf 71)”
- The Qur’anic Narrative vol. 2, p. 52: He uses it to argue that polytheism among the people of Hud was a multiplicity of names and domains with no authority from God.
- Concept: Polytheism
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “The proof is His saying, exalted be He, about Hud: {He said, ‘Ritual impurity and wrath from your Lord have indeed befallen you. Do you dispute over names you have named …‘} (Al-A‘raf 71).”
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 278: He makes it a witness to disputation over the issue of names and multiplicity versus unity.
- Concept: Disputation
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: ”- {Do you dispute over names that you and your fathers have named…?} (Al-A‘raf 71).”
Related books
This page is presented within the general method of building the atlas.