This axis gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as cited

And spend in the path of God, and do not throw yourselves with your own hands into destruction, and do good; indeed, God loves the doers of good

Brief reading

The verse appears as an implicit reference for expanding the meaning of spending to what is in the path of God.

Axes

  • Legislative
  • Political and social

Associated concepts

  • Spending in the path of God: 2
  • Spending: 1

Its position in the conceptual network

It serves to connect spending to its general course in the path of God within the conceptual context of spending.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Context: 1

Instances of use

  • The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 96: He mentions it as an implicit reference for expanding the meaning of spending to what is in the path of God, without quoting its text here.
    • Concept: spending in the path of God
    • Function of the verse here: context
    • Textual evidence: «“spending in the path of God” at one time (see al-Baqara 195), 262 and al-Anfal 60), and “for the sake of God” at another time»
  • The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna

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