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.
The verse text as cited
And when We said, “Enter this town … and say, ‘Hitta,’ We will forgive you your sins”
Brief reading
The verse is used to link forgiveness to return and reform, and to show that some expressions carry a special technical religious meaning.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- sins: 2
- technical relation: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It shows how a word shifts from its general meaning to its technical sense.
The verse’s role in the argument
- support: 1
- example: 1
Uses
- Islam and Human Beings: He employs it to link forgiveness to return and reform after wrongdoing.
- concept: sins
- function of the verse here: support
- textual evidence: «{ … and enter the gate prostrating and say, “Hitta,” We will forgive you your sins… } (al-Baqarah 58).»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 260: He makes it an example of how an abstract word may become conventionally associated with a specific religious meaning, such as Hitta meaning forgiveness.
- concept: technical relation
- function of the verse here: example
- textual evidence: «The Wise Revelation has given a splendid example of abstraction … {and say, “Hitta,” We will forgive you your sins}»
Related books
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