This axis gathers one locus of this verse’s use in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
SAY: He is Allah, One
Brief reading
Shahrur uses it to show that the presence of qul turns the sentence into an imperative form and changes the type of meaning.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Imperative form: 2
- qul: 1
- declarative meaning: 1
- type of verse: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It serves to distinguish between the verbal structure and its semantic function.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Distinction: 1
Loci of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 64: The example is used to show that the presence of “qul” turns the sentence into an imperative form that is non-Qur’anic in terms of declarative meaning, and that omitting it changes the type of verse.
- Concept: imperative form
- Verse function here: distinction
- Textual evidence: «{قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ} (Ikhlāṣ 1)»
Related books
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