This axis gathers one place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, with links to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as quoted
Our Lord, and send among them a messenger from themselves who will recite to them Your signs and teach them the Book and wisdom and purify them
Brief reading
The verse comes within the restriction of the places of wisdom, to affirm the breadth of its Qur’anic meaning and that it is not confined to the Sunna.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Wisdom: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to expanding the concept of wisdom within the text.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Places of use
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 49: He cites it within his restriction of the places of wisdom in the Revelation to show that wisdom is a Qur’anic concept of broad significance and not synonymous with the Sunna.
- Concept: wisdom
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «the first of them is in His saying تعالى {Our Lord, and send among them a messenger… who will recite to them the Book and wisdom…} Al-Baqarah 129»
Related books
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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