This axis brings together 1 location of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, with links to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

Verse text as cited

And had he attributed to Us some of the sayings * We would have seized him by the right hand * Then We would have cut from him the aorta

Brief reading

Shahrur uses it to argue that the Messenger cannot invent a statement of his own or add to revelation or subtract from it.

Axes

  • Methodological
  • Faith-based
  • Warning: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It functions to negate any overlap between revelation and human speech.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Critique of the inherited tradition: 1

Instances of use

  • The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 48: It is cited to argue for the impossibility that the Messenger would invent sayings of his own or add to revelation or subtract from it.
    • Concept: Warning
    • Function of the verse here: Critique of the inherited tradition
    • Textual citation: «under the force of God’s saying {وَلَوْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْنَا بَعْضَ الْأَقَاوِيلِ * لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِالْيَمِينِ * ثُمَّ لَقَطَعْنَا مِنْهُ الْوَتِينَ} al-Haqqah 44-46»
  • The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna

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