This hub gathers 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
{It was not for a prophet to have captives until he has thoroughly subdued [his enemies] in the land …}
Brief reading
The verse is understood as a circumstantial historical stance in the management of prisoners, not as a permanent messianic ruling.
Axes
- Political and social
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Executive authority: 2
- Prisoners: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It clarifies the limits of executive decision in the historical event and distinguishes it from legislation.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Distinction: 2
Places of use
- State and Society, p. 302: He uses it to distinguish between the station of prophethood and the station of military leadership, making the ruling on the prisoners of Badr a matter of political administration, not legislative revelation.
- Concept: Executive authority
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «… and he complied with this opinion, despite its error … {It was not for a prophet to have captives until he has thoroughly subdued [his enemies] in the land …} (Al-Anfal 67), that is, as a military commander of his community (executive authority)»
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 115: He states that the verse describes a circumstantial historical situation, and therefore does not turn the treatment of prisoners into a permanent messianic legislation.
- Concept: Prisoners
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «{It was not for a prophet to have captives…} Al-Anfal 67 … to show the circumstantial nature of this situation and that it belongs to narrative, and obedience in it is a separate obedience.»
Related books
- State and Society
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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