This axis brings together 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 quoted
He grants wisdom to whom He wills ۚ and whoever is granted wisdom has indeed been granted abundant good ۗ And none takes heed except those endowed with understanding
Brief reading
In Shahrur’s work, the verse appears in the context of explaining that “ulu” indicates a group of males in the sense of “those endowed with,” not in the sense of ruling authority.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
Associated concepts
- Those endowed with knowledge: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the path of regulating lexical meaning within the network of Qur’anic terms.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Context: 1
Uses
- The messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna, p. 148: He cites it among examples of “ulu” with waw to affirm that the term denotes a group of males in the sense of “those endowed with,” not authority or rule.
- Concept: Those endowed with knowledge
- Function of the verse here: Context
- Textual evidence: “Its first is in al-Baqarah 269 and its last is in al-Ahqaf 35”
Related books
- The messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna
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