This hub brings together 3 places 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
Take from their wealth a charity by which you purify them and cleanse them…
Brief reading
The verse appears here in connection with almsgiving and purification, and in clarifying that blessing upon believers is understood as supplication and connection, not as a ritual form.
Axes
- Legislation
- Faith
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Purification: 2
- Blessing upon believers: 2
- Almsgiving: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It links worship, expenditure, and purification within a single continuous meaning.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 2
- Example: 1
Uses
- Islam and Faith, p. 81: He uses it to link almsgiving to purification and cleansing, and to the religious function of zakat.
- Concept: Purification
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «- TAKING FROM THEIR WEALTH A CHARITY THAT PURIFIES THEM AND CLEANSES THEM BY IT… (At-Tawbah 103).»
- Islam and Faith, p. 256: He cites it to show that blessing here means supplication/connection and that it is a source of tranquility for believers, not a ritual form.
- Concept: Blessing upon believers
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «- {TAKE FROM THEIR WEALTH A CHARITY… AND BLESS THEM; INDEED YOUR BLESSING IS A SOURCE OF TRANQUILITY FOR THEM…} (At-Tawbah 103).»
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 96: He uses it to argue that almsgiving is purification and cleansing, and that it is a link connecting expenditure and zakat.
- Concept: Almsgiving
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «{TAKE FROM THEIR WEALTH A CHARITY THAT PURIFIES THEM AND CLEANSES THEM BY IT…} At-Tawbah 103.»
Related books
- Islam and Faith
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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