This axis collects one locus of use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as quoted

INN ALLADHINA FATANU AL-MU’MININA WAL-MU’MINATI THUMMA LAM YATABU…

Brief reading

The verse is used as an example of fitna when coercion turns into a means of silencing opinion and directing people.

Axes

  • Political and social
  • Fitna: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It is connected to the concept of fitna as a disturbance in the relationship between power and weakness.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Example: 1

Places of use

  • Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 52: He uses it as an example of political fitna when the strong oppresses the weak in order to divert him from his opinion.
    • Concept: fitna
    • Function of the verse here: example
    • Textual evidence: «The dictatorial state … only so that it may tempt him away from his views: { إِنَّ الَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ … } (al-Buruj 10).»

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