This axis brings together 2 instances of Muhammad Shahrur’s use of this verse in his books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as cited

إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ… فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَلَا عَادٍ فَلَا إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِ

Brief reading

Shahrur makes it a basis for restricting the license, in the sphere of food, to cases of necessity, and for not generalizing it to the rest of the prohibited matters.

Axes

  • Legislative
  • Human and ethical
  • Necessity: 2
  • License: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It enters a network for regulating legislative exception within defined limits.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Support: 1
  • Foundational: 1

Instances of use

  • Islam and Human Beings: He uses it to determine that necessity lifts sin only in the sphere of food.
    • Concept: Necessity
    • Function of the verse here: Support
    • Textual evidence: «- { إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةَ … فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَلَا عَادٍ فَلَا إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِ } (البقرة ١٧٣)»
  • Toward a New Usul for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 107: He relies on it to confine licenses to the sphere of food and to prevent extending the rule of necessity to the rest of the prohibitions.
    • Concept: License
    • Function of the verse here: Foundational
    • Textual evidence: «- { فَمَنِ اضْطُرَّ غَيْرَ بَاغٍ وَلَا عَادٍ فَلَا إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِ } (البقرة ١٧٣).»
    • The corresponding traditional reading: Generalizing the rule that necessities permit prohibitions

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