This axis brings together 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
Did We not give him two eyes * and a tongue and two lips?
Brief reading
It is cited as evidence that speech is an innate human capacity, and Shahrur places it in opposition to an interpretation that ties speech itself to revelation.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- البيان: 2
Its place in the concept network
It is connected to the concept of clarification as a human capacity, not as proof of infallibility.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Places of use
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 44: It is used as evidence that speech is a built-in human capacity that does not require revelation, thereby refuting the doctrine of infallibility that makes speech itself dependent on revelation.
- Concept: clarification
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «He pointed to it explicitly in the words of God Almighty: {أَلَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَهُ عَيْنَيْنِ * وَلِسَانًا وَشَفَتَيْنِ} al-Balad 8, 9»
Related books
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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