This axis gathers 5 locations of this verse’s use in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And for each there is a direction to which he turns, so race to good deeds
Brief reading
He uses it to interpret loyalty as orienting the direction, then transforming it into individual and collective conduct.
Axes
- Political and social
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Direction: 4
- Loyalty: 3
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the construction of the concept of loyalty and its relation to a shared practical orientation.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 3
- Foundation: 2
Summary of its presence in the atlas
- Direction is the basis of loyalty
- It moves from individual to collective
- Its presence in racing toward good deeds
Instances of use
- Islam and Human Being: He uses it to explain how loyalty becomes individual and then collective through the unification of direction.
- Concept: direction
- Role of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{ وَلِكُلٍّ وَجْهَةٌ هُوَ مُؤَلِّيهَا فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ… } (al-Baqara 148)»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 168: He makes it evidence that loyalty is the directing of the direction toward a specific leader, then turning it into practical conduct.
- Concept: direction
- Role of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{وَلِكُلٍّ وَجْهَةٌ هُوَ مُؤَلِّيهَا} (al-Baqara 148).»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 170: He relies on it to explain the transformation of individual loyalty into collective loyalty when direction and conduct are unified.
- Concept: direction
- Role of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{وَلِكُلٍّ وَجْهَةٌ هُوَ مُؤَلِّيهَا فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ} (al-Baqara 148).»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 292: He makes it the basis for the meaning of loyalty as following and directing oneself toward a specific side or value.
- Concept: loyalty
- Role of the verse here: foundation
- Textual evidence: «As for loyalty, we find it in the saying of the Exalted: {وَلِكُلٍّ وَجْهَةٌ هُوَ مُؤَلِّيهَا فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ} (al-Baqara 148).»
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 64: He uses it to establish the idea of multiple directions/loyalties while remaining in competition for good.
- Concept: loyalty
- Role of the verse here: foundation
- Textual evidence: «In the Exalted’s saying: { وَلِكُلٍّ وَجْهَةٌ هُوَ مُؤَلِّيهَا فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ… } (al-Baqara 148).»
Related books
- Islam and Human Being
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation
This page is presented within the general method of atlas construction.