This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
{Your Lord knows best about you. If He wills, He will have mercy on you, or if He wills, He will punish you. And We have not sent you as a guarantor over them}
Brief reading
The verse affirms that people’s destiny is with God, and that the Messenger is not appointed to compel them or control them.
Axes
- Political and social
- Faith-based
Associated concepts
- Rejection of delegation: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to criticism of any conception that makes the message a power of coercion over people.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of the tradition: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 303: used to affirm that people’s destiny is with God, and that the Messenger is not appointed to compel them or control them.
- Concept: Rejection of delegation
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the tradition
- Textual citation: «- {Your Lord knows best about you … And We have not sent you as a guarantor over them} (al-Isrāʾ 54),»
Related books
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