This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in the books of Muhammad Shahrur, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
O you who believe, eat of the wholesome things We have provided for you …
Reader’s Answer
Question
How does Shahrur employ Qur’an 2:172 to argue that the sphere of prohibition is not the basis of dietary legislation?
Shahrur employs the verse as evidence that the basic principle is the permissibility of “wholesome things,” after setting out a minimum set of prohibitions. He thus reads it as part of a movement from detailed prohibitions to linking permissibility to wholesome things in general. This describes his reading of the verse; it is not an independent statement of what the verse alone entails.
Shahrur places the verse “Eat of the wholesome things We have provided for you” among the evidences through which he explains permissibility as being generally connected to wholesome things, after identifying a minimum set of prohibitions.
Evidence and location
the Book and the Qur’an — p. 391.
Limits of the reading
- The evidence presents the verse within Shahrur’s comparative framework, but it does not independently establish here that this framework constitutes the final legislation.
- The idea of a movement from detailed prohibition to wholesome things in general should be attributed to Shahrur, rather than being merged without distinction into the verse’s direct meaning.
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Brief reading
The verse supports the idea that final legislation revolves around wholesome things more than around an expansive sphere of prohibition.
Axes
- Legislative
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Wholesome things: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It belongs to the network of permissibility and ethical choice.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- the Book and the Qur’an, p. 391: He includes it among the verses of permissibility in order to establish that final legislation revolves around wholesome things rather than expansive prohibitions.
- Concept: wholesome things
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: “– {O you who believe, eat of the wholesome things We have provided for you..} (al-Baqarah 172)”
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