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.
The verse text as cited
And the first forerunners among the Emigrants and the Helpers and those who followed them in excellence—Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him, and He has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding therein forever. That is the great triumph
Brief reading
Shahrur places it under scrutiny in order to reject restricting approval and justice to the Companion generation alone.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- The Companions: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It works to dismantle the historical particularization of virtue.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of tradition: 1
Instances of use
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 55: He places it under scrutiny and rejects understanding it as a restriction of approval and justice to the Companion generation alone.
- Concept: The Companions
- Function of the verse here: Critique of tradition
- Textual citation: «3. As for what is stated in verse 100 of Surah al-Tawbah, there is room for scrutiny»
- The corresponding traditional reading: that divine approval is confined to the Companions, the Followers, and the Followers of the Followers.
Related books
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
This page is presented within the general method of atlas construction.