This axis brings together 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, while linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And that this is My straight path, so follow it …
Brief reading
The verse makes the straight path a comprehensive reference for values and commandments, and links it to following the Messenger and Abraham and to the limits of freedom.
Axes
- Legislative
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Straight path: 3
Its position in the network of concepts
It functions as a comprehensive foundation in building Shahrur’s legislative conception.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
- Foundation: 1
Instances of use
- The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought, p. 12: makes it a reference for the piety of Islam as a system of values and the Ten Commandments, not merely rituals.
- Concept: Straight path
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “Although the piety of Islam is a straight path; {And that this is My straight path, so follow it…} (Al-An’am 153)”
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 137: considers it the comprehensive reference that brings together following the Messenger and Abraham, and from it reaches the idea of hanifism and the limits of freedom.
- Concept: Straight path
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: “And following the straight path once again, { And that this is My straight path, so follow it }“
Related books
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