This axis collects 1 place 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 quoted
And give the near of kin their due, and the poor, and the wayfarer, and do not squander wastefully. Indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils, and ever has Satan been, to his Lord, ungrateful.
Brief reading
The verse establishes a distinction between wastefulness and extravagance, making it an excess in what is lawful, not an entry into what is forbidden.
Axes
- Legislative
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Wastefulness: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the limits of financial action within the ethical and legislative system.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundational: 1
Pages in the atlas that refer to this verse
These links gather the pages that rely on the verse or make it part of the argument within the atlas.
Related claim atoms
Places of use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 155: He uses it to establish the distinction between wastefulness and extravagance, and makes it an excess in what is lawful rather than falling into what is forbidden.
- Concept: wastefulness
- Function of the verse here: foundational
- Textual evidence: “Wastefulness appears in the Wise Revelation twice in one context… then: excess in the field of the lawful, without crossing the boundary separating it from the forbidden, is wastefulness.”
- The corresponding traditional reading: he responds to those who equate wastefulness with extravagance, among them Fakhr al-Din al-Razi as he reports from him.
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