This axis brings together 3 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
That is from what your Lord has revealed to you of wisdom
Brief reading
The verse is made a boundary between wisdom as revealed values and other domains with which it is not to be confused.
Axes
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Wisdom: 4
Its place in the network of concepts
It helps distinguish wisdom from detailed exegesis and from the rest of the levels of discourse.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Foundational: 1
- Supportive: 1
- Distinguishing: 1
Places of use
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 48: the verse makes it the governing statement, meaning for him that all that came before of commands and prohibitions is part of the wisdom revealed to the Messenger, not an independent prophetic Sunna.
- Concept: wisdom
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: «He concludes all this with His saying تعالى {ذَٰلِكَ مِمَّا أَوْحَى إِلَيْكَ رَبُّكَ مِنَ الْحِكْمَةِ…} al-Isra 39»
- The corresponding traditional reading: that it refers to a messengerly Sunna or a prophetic Sunna.
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 104: he cites it to establish that wisdom in revelation is moral values and higher ideals.
- Concept: wisdom
- Function of the verse here: Supportive
- Textual evidence: «Except by looking at the verse of al-Isra 39.»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 217: he uses it to distinguish between moral commandments and wisdom on the one hand, and God’s verses and words on the other.
- Concept: wisdom
- Function of the verse here: Distinguishing
- Textual evidence: «We find that he followed these verses with His saying {ذَلِكَ مِمَّا أَوْحَى إِلَيْكَ رَبُّكَ مِنَ الْحِكْمَةِ..} (al-Isra 39).»
Related books
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
- The Book and the Qur’an
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