This axis brings together 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
Say, “Call upon Allah or call upon the All-Merciful; whichever you call upon, to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names.” And do not recite your prayer too loudly or too softly, but seek a way between.
Brief reading
The verse is read as indicating that prayer here is a bond and supplication, with the presence of the supreme name in its signification.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Supplication: 2
- The supreme name: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It links the meaning of supplication with the conception of the supreme name in the faith-based structure.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
- Support: 1
Uses
- Islam and Faith, p. 256: He cites it to argue that prayer here is connection with God and supplication, because the context is one of supplication, not ritual observance.
- Concept: supplication
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: «- {قُلْ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ أَوْ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمَنَ… وَلَا تَجْهَرُ بِصَلَاتِكَ…} (الإسراء ١١٠).»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 35: He relies on it to say that “the All-Merciful” encompasses opposites and dominates the rest of the names in his conception.
- Concept: the supreme name
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{قُلِ ادْعُوا اللَّهَ أَوْ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمَنَ …} (الإسراء ١١٠)»
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