This focal point gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that emerge around it.
The verse text as cited
{Say: To God belongs the conclusive argument; so if He had willed, He would have guided you all}
Brief reading
He makes it a basis for guidance grounded in proof and reason, not in compulsion.
Foci
- Methodological
- Faith-based
Related concepts
- Argument and proof: 2
- Guidance through reason: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters into a construction that links guidance to argument rather than to coercion.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundation: 1
Instances of use
- The State and Society, p. 298: He makes it the basis of the third guidance, that is, guidance grounded in proof and reason, not in compulsion.
- Concept: argument and proof
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «3- Guidance through argument and proof without coercion… and this is what God — Glorified be He — intended for human beings in His saying: {Say: To God belongs the conclusive argument; so if He had willed, He would have guided you all} (al-An’am 149).»
Related books
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