This locus brings together 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
… YOUR LORD HAS DECREED UPON HIMSELF MERCY: if any of you does evil in ignorance, then repents afterward and reforms, He is Forgiving, Merciful
Brief reading
He makes it a principle that wrongdoing, if followed by repentance and reform, is forgiven.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Faith-based
Related concepts
- Mercy: 2
- Repentance and reform: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to an ethical concept that opens the door to pardon with repentance.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishment: 1
Uses
- Islam and Man: He makes it a principle that wrongdoing done in ignorance, if followed by repentance and reform, is forgiven.
- Concept: mercy
- The verse’s function here: establishment
- Textual evidence: «{ … كَتَبَ رَبُّكُمْ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ الرَّحْمَةَ أَنَّهُ مِنْ عَمَلٍ مِنْكُمْ سُوءًا بِجَهَالَةٍ ثُمَّ تَابَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ وَأَصْلَحَ فَأَنَّهُ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ } (Al-An’am 54)»
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