This axis gathers 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
THE MESSENGER BELIEVED IN WHAT WAS REVEALED TO HIM FROM HIS LORD, AND THE BELIEVERS [likewise]: each one believed in God, His angels, His books, and His messengers …
Brief reading
The verse is used to establish faith in the messengers and the books, while linking obedience to what was revealed to the Messenger.
Axes
- Faith
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Faith: 2
- Obedience: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into regulating the relationship between practical faith and response to revelation.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 2
Instances of use
- Islam and Human Being: It is understood from it that the believers are the followers of Muhammad ﷺ who believed in him, with the necessity of believing in the messengers and previous books as part of this faith.
- Concept: Faith
- Function of the verse here: Establishing
- Textual evidence: «{ … AND THE BELIEVERS [likewise]: each one believed in God, His angels, His books, and His messengers … } (al-Baqarah 285)»
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 86: It is cited as evidence that obedience came tied to faith in the Messenger and in what was revealed to him, and that the believers proclaim hearing and obeying God’s commands through the Messenger.
- Concept: Obedience
- Function of the verse here: Establishing
- Textual evidence: «{THE MESSENGER BELIEVED IN WHAT WAS REVEALED TO HIM…} al-Baqarah 285… then comes the phrase “And they said, We hear and we obey”…»
Related books
- Islam and Human Being
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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