al-Baqara 112

This axis gathers 5 locations where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse as it appears

Yes indeed: whoever submits his face to God while being benevolent, his reward is with his Lord…

Brief reading

Shahrur makes it evidence that acceptance and reward are tied to practical beneficence in this life.

Axes

• Faith
• Human and ethical

Related concepts

• Beneficence: 5
• Islam and beneficence: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It enters into linking Islam to ethical conduct, not to formal affiliation.

The verse’s role in the argument

• Support: 3
• Foundation: 2

Summary of its presence in the atlas

• Beneficence is a condition for reward
• It is connected to practical Islam
• Its presence in linking this world and the hereafter

Instances of use

• Islam and Humanity: He derives from it that the eschatological reward is tied to practical beneficence in this life.
  • Concept: Beneficence
  • Function of the verse here: Foundation
  • Textual citation: «Mentioning beneficence in His saying تعالى: { بَلَى مِنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُ لِلَّهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ فَلَهُ أَجْرُهُ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِ… } (al-Baqara 112).»
• Islam and Humanity: He cites it as evidence that a person’s acceptance and reward are tied to beneficence in this life, not merely to formal affiliation.
  • Concept: Beneficence
  • Function of the verse here: Support
  • Textual citation: «We must pay attention to the description { وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ } that came in verse 112 of Surat al-Baqara: { بَلَى مَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُ لِلَّهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ … }»
• Islam and Faith, p. 87: He cites it as evidence that Islam, for him, is practical submission accompanied by beneficence.
  • Concept: Islam and beneficence
  • Function of the verse here: Support
  • Textual citation: «{بَلَى مِنْ أَسْلَمِ وَجْهَهُ لِلَّهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ…} (al-Baqara 112).»
• Islam and Faith, p. 110: He makes it evidence that the eschatological reward is tied to the beneficence of this life.
  • Concept: Beneficence
  • Function of the verse here: Support
  • Textual citation: «And in verse 112 of Surat al-Baqara: { بَلَى مَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُ لِلَّهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ فَلَهُ أَجْرُهُ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِ… }»
• Islam and Faith, p. 233: He makes it a rule for linking beneficence in this life to reward in the hereafter, and sees this world as the field for the hereafter.
  • Concept: Beneficence
  • Function of the verse here: Foundation
  • Textual citation: «- {بَلَى مَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُ لِلَّهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ فَلَهُ أَجْرُهُ…} (al-Baqara 112).»

Related books

• Islam and Humanity
• Islam and Faith

This page is presented within the general method of atlas construction.