This axis brings together 2 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
And give the relative his due, and the needy, and the traveler, and do not squander wastefully
Brief reading
The verse is classified among the injunctions that regulate spending and forbid wastefulness within what is permitted.
Axes
- Legislative
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Spending: 2
- Wastefulness: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It contributes to the network of ethical concepts that regulate money and conduct.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundational: 1
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 48: He includes it within a series of injunctions that he sees as divine wisdom inspired to the Messenger, not as self-generated legislation.
- Concept: spending
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: «And after He says {وَآتِ ذَا الْقُرْبَى حَقَّهُ وَالْمِسْكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلِ وَلَا تُبَدِّرْ تَبْذِيرًا} al-Isra’ 26»
- A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 50: He uses it to define wastefulness as a quantitative transgression within the realm of the permissible, not a departure into the forbidden.
- Concept: wastefulness
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «Wastefulness occurs only in quantity within the lawful, according to His saying تعالى: { وَأَنتَ ذَا الْقُرْبَى حَقَّهُ … وَلَا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِيرًا } (al-Isra’ 26).»
Related books
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
- A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation
This page is presented within the general method of atlas construction.