This axis brings together 2 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
THOSE ARE A PEOPLE WHO HAVE PASSED ON; FOR THEM IS WHAT THEY EARNED …
Brief reading
Shahrur employs the verse to affirm that the positions of the past should not be imposed on the present, and to make history a realm distinct from contemporary judgment.
Axes
- Methodological
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Separating history from the present: 2
- Separating history: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to his method of isolating historical report from polemical use in the present.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Context: 1
- Support: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 405: He uses it together with al-Baqarah 134 for one meaning: not projecting past rulings or positions onto the present.
- Concept: Separating history from the present
- Function of the verse here: Context
- Textual citation: «His saying تعالى {THOSE ARE A PEOPLE WHO HAVE PASSED ON; THEY SHALL HAVE WHAT THEY EARNED …} (al-Baqarah 134 and 141).»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 204: He uses it to stress that today’s struggle is not a trial of the Companions and history, but a critique of the use of the concept of apostasy against contemporary opponents.
- Concept: Separating history
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «We are not trying here to put history and its people on trial… {THOSE ARE A PEOPLE WHO HAVE PASSED ON…} (al-Baqarah 141)»
Related books
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