This locus gathers 4 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 cited
And [recall] when We gave Moses the Book and the Furqan that perhaps you would be guided.
Brief reading
Shahrur uses it to confirm that Moses’ message was linked to the Book and the Furqan together, and that the term the Book here denotes legislation.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Legislative
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Furqan: 3
- The Book with Moses: 3
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to the comparison between the message of Moses and the message of Muhammad, and to distinguishing the meaning of the Book.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 4
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 71: He cites it to include the Furqan within Moses’ message alongside the Torah, as a prelude to the comparison with the Qur’an and the message of Muhammad.
- Concept: Furqan
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «{وَإِذْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ وَالْفُرْقَانَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ} (البقرة ٥٣)»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 384: He takes it as evidence that the basis of the earlier legislation was in the Book of Moses and the Furqan previously referred to.
- Concept: Furqan
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «- {وَإِذْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ وَالْفُرْقَانَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ} (البقرة ٥٣).»
- Guide to a Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 32: He cites it to establish that the Book with Moses is a legislative book, and that this meaning is shared by the People of the Book.
- Concept: The Book with Moses
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «{ وَإِذْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ وَالْفُرْقَانَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ } (البقرة ٥٣)»
- Guide to a Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 32: He cites it to clarify that the Book may mean legislation, and that this meaning is present in Moses’ message.
- Concept: The Book with Moses
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «بالنسبة إلى موسى نجده في قوله تعالى: { وَإِذْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ وَالْفُرْقَانَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ } (البقرة ٥٣).»
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