This locus gathers 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
وَإِذْ نَجَّيْنَاكُمْ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ… وَفِي ذَلِكُمْ بَلَاءٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ
Brief reading
It distinguishes between trial and test, and makes affliction a negative collective test associated with Pharaoh’s oppression.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Trial: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It contributes to establishing a historical understanding of collective testing under authority.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishment: 1
Occurrences of use
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 52: It distinguishes between trial and test, and makes affliction a negative collective test linked to Pharaoh’s oppression.
- Concept: trial
- Function of the verse here: establishment
- Textual evidence: «As for trial, it is the negative collective test, as happened to the people of Moses with Pharaoh in His saying تعالى: { … وَفِي ذَلِكُمْ بَلَاءٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ } (al-Baqara 49).»
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