This axis gathers 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
Say: I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything prohibited to one who eats it, except that it be carrion, or flowing blood, or the flesh of swine …
Brief reading
The verse is used to define a minimum boundary for dietary prohibitions, and to restrict the dispensation regarding food and what is analogous to it in cases of necessity.
Axes
- Legislative
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Analysis and prohibition: 2
- Dispensation: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It links the language of lawful and unlawful with regulating the legislative exception.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 2
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 390: He makes it a minimum boundary for dietary prohibitions in the Muhammadian message, in contrast to the more severe prohibitions in Jewish law.
- Concept: analysis and prohibition
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «– {قُلْ لَا أَجِدُ فِي مَا أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ مُحَرَّمَا عَلَى طَاعِمٍ …} (Al-An’am 145)»
- Toward a New Foundation for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 107: He groups it with the verses of necessity to prove that the Qur’anic dispensation is confined to food and what is analogous to it.
- Concept: dispensation
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «- { فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَلَا عَادٍ فَلَا إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِ إِنَّ اللهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ } (Al-An’am 145).»
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