This axis brings together 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as it appears
… THOSE WHO BREAK GOD’S COVENANT AFTER ITS BINDING…
Brief reading
The verse appears to show that breaking the covenant is not merely a violation but corruption that severs what God has commanded to be joined.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Breaking the covenant: 3
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to Shahrur’s distinction between fidelity and corruption in collective conduct.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of the heritage: 1
- Distinction: 1
Places of use
- Islam and Iman, p. 109: He uses it to show that breaking the covenant is corruption and a severing of what God has commanded to be joined.
- Concept: Breaking the covenant
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the heritage
- Textual evidence: «{… AND NONE IS LED ASTRAY BY IT EXCEPT THE TRANSGRESSORS * THOSE WHO BREAK GOD’S COVENANT AFTER ITS BINDING…} (al-Baqarah 26–27).»
- Islam and Iman, p. 109: He uses it to show that the covenant precedes the pledge and that breaking it is among the traits of the transgressors.
- Concept: Breaking the covenant
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «We see this in His saying تعالى: {… AND NONE IS LED ASTRAY BY IT EXCEPT THE TRANSGRESSORS * THOSE WHO BREAK GOD’S COVENANT AFTER ITS BINDING …} (al-Baqarah 26–27).»
Related books
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