This axis brings together two places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
And He it is who has produced gardens, trellised and untrellised, and date-palms and crops, each differing in its produce, and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar. Eat of its fruit when it bears fruit, and give its due on the day of its harvest, and do not be wasteful; indeed, He does not love the wasteful.
Brief reading
It is built upon the idea that the difference among plants results from an internal dialectical movement that generates diversity.
Axes
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Plant dialectic: 2
- Diversity and mutation: 1
- Similarity: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into a reading that makes the natural phenomenon an entry point for understanding movement in the cosmos.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundational: 1
- Distinguishing: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 197: He makes it the basis for explaining that the difference among plants results from an internal dialectical movement that generates diversity and mutation.
- Concept: plant dialectic
- The verse’s function here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: “This verse came to show that the dialectical movement in which the secret of evolution lies is the governing law behind the differences among plant species”
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 103: He emphasizes that his use of “muḥkam” here is not part of the division into the precise and the ambiguous in Al ‘Imran.
- Concept: similarity
- The verse’s function here: Distinguishing
- Textual evidence: “…it is also unrelated to the ambiguous (mutashābih) mentioned in Al ‘Imran 7”
- The corresponding traditional reading: the ambiguous mentioned in Al ‘Imran 7
Related books
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