This axis gathers 2 instances of Muhammad Shahrur’s use of this verse in his books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that emerge around it.
The verse as cited
… and gives wealth, in spite of love for it…
Brief reading
Shahrur cites it to argue that spending of wealth, despite one’s love for it, is among the acts of righteousness, and that spending has a broad social dimension that goes beyond the specific almsgiving of zakat.
Axes
- Humanitarian and ethical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- righteousness: 2
- spending: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to broadening the concept of righteousness into an organized social and financial practice.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 2
Instances of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 23: He uses it to argue that spending wealth despite one’s love for it is among the acts of righteousness and beneficence.
- Concept: righteousness
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual citation: «- {… but righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah and the Last Day … and gives wealth, in spite of love for it…} (Al-Baqara 177).»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 106: He uses it to distinguish between Islam’s general spending and the zakat specific to believers, extracting from it the elements of general social spending.
- Concept: spending
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual citation: «- {Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east … and gives zakat …} (Al-Baqara 177).»
Related books
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