This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, connecting it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse Text as Quoted
Permission is granted to those who fight because they have been wronged, and indeed God is fully able to grant them victory * those who were expelled from their homes without right, except that they said, “Our Lord is God.”
Brief Reading
Shahrur uses it to establish the legitimacy of defensive fighting for one’s homeland, as defense of the homeland rather than of a combat ideology.
Axes
- Political and social
- Legislative
Related Concepts
- Defense of the homeland: 2
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It establishes a specific political meaning for legitimate fighting.
The Verse’s Role in the Argument
- Foundational: 1
Instances of Use
- Islam and Humanity, p. 42: He cites the two verses to establish the legitimacy of defensive fighting for the homeland as defense of the homeland, not of a random collective combat ideology.
- Concept: Defense of the homeland
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: “And the homeland, as the Wise Revelation called it, ‘the homes,’ is among the noblest things a human being must defend, as in His saying, exalted is He: { Permission is granted to those who fight… } (Al-Hajj 39-40)”
Related Books
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