This axis brings together 2 locations 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
And We had certainly given Abraham his sound judgment before, and We were of him Knowing.
Brief reading
The verse is cited to show that Abraham attained maturity and an earlier inferential method in the search for God and hanifism.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Abraham’s sound judgment: 3
Its place in the network of concepts
It supports the image of Abraham as a model of reasoned intellect before revelation.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 2
Uses
- State and Society, p. 184: makes it a witness that Abraham possessed sound judgment and a sound inferential method in the search for God.
- Concept: Abraham’s sound judgment
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual witness: «Then it came while he was stumbling between doubt and certainty, mentioned in all its details in the Wise Revelation… as in His saying — Exalted is He —: {And We had certainly given Abraham his sound judgment before …} (21:51)»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 409: makes it a witness to Abraham’s precedence in grasping hanifism before revelation, not merely to his receiving a later message.
- Concept: Abraham’s sound judgment
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual witness: «{… And We had certainly given Abraham his sound judgment before, and We were of him Knowing} (21:51)»
Related books
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