This axis brings together 3 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 text as cited
Whoever comes with a good deed will have ten times its like…
Brief reading
The verse is employed to explain Shahrur’s law of eschatological recompense, where good deeds are multiplied and evil is met with the like of it.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Human and ethical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Recompense: 2
- The scale of recompense: 2
- Good deeds: 2
- Evil deeds: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to the scale of ethics and recompense in his Qur’anic conception.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 3
Instances of use
- Islam and the Human Being: He uses it to show the inequality between the scale of good deeds and evil deeds in the Hereafter.
- Concept: recompense
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «As in His saying تعالى: { Whoever comes with a good deed, then he will have not ten times its like, and whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except with its like … } (Al-An‘am 160).»
- Islam and Faith, p. 106: He uses it to clarify that eschatological recompense multiplies good deeds and matches evil deeds with the like of them.
- Concept: the scale of recompense
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{ Whoever comes with a good deed will have ten times its like, and whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except with its like… } (Al-An‘am 160).»
- Islam and Faith, p. 227: He cites it as evidence for the law of matching good deeds with evil within his classification of moral action and recompense.
- Concept: good deeds
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «- {Whoever comes with a good deed will have ten times its like, and whoever comes with an evil deed will not be recompensed except with its like, and they will not be wronged} (Al-An‘am 160).»
Related books
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