This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in the books of Muhammad Shahrur, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The Verse Text as Cited
And they say, “These are cattle and crops forbidden; none may eat them except those whom we will,” so they claim …
Reader’s Answer
Question
How does Shahrur employ Qur’an 6:138 in his critique of prohibition attributed to religion?
Shahrur employs the verse as an example of a prohibition that people devise for themselves and then attribute to God; he places it in the context of his discussion of restricting prohibitions and leaving everything else within the sphere of what is permitted.
Shahrur presents Qur’an 6:138 among the evidences through which he discusses the shift from specific, concrete prohibitions to the mention of a minimum set of prohibitions, while leaving what lies beyond them within the sphere of permissibility.
Evidence and Location
The Book and the Qur’an — p. 390.
Limits of the Reading
- The evidence establishes Shahrur’s inclusion of the verse in his argument concerning prohibition and permissibility, but it does not, in this passage alone, explain in detail his criteria for every later human or legislative prohibition.
- The structure of the table does not make all the comparison headings fully clear; the presentation is therefore limited to the direct connection between the verse and the idea of prohibition attributed to God.
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Brief Reading
He employs it to show that some prohibitions attributed to religion were human-made rather than from God.
Axes
- Legislative
- Linguistic and semantic
Related Concepts
- False prohibition: 2
- Human creation of prohibition: 1
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It is connected to the critique of extending prohibition beyond the text.
The Verse’s Role in the Argument
- Critique of tradition: 1
Instances of Use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 390: He uses it to show that some prohibitions in Jewish tradition were their own creation and claim, not from God.
- Concept: False prohibition
- Function of the verse here: Critique of tradition
- Textual evidence: “– {And they say, ‘These are cattle and crops forbidden …’} (Al-An’am 138)”
Related Books
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