This axis brings together 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, with a linking of it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
They ask you to hasten the punishment, but Allah will never fail His promise. And indeed, a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of what you count (47), and how many a town I gave respite while it was unjust, then I seized it, and to Me is the destination.
Brief reading
The two verses support the idea of a time reprieve between tyranny and requital, in accordance with divine laws in society.
Axes
- methodological
- political and social
Related concepts
- respite: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into a conception of the laws that connect human action to its outcome through time.
The verse’s role in the argument
- support: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society: It is cited to argue that between tyranny and destruction there is a temporal reprieve that may lengthen or shorten according to divine laws.
- concept: respite
- role of the verse here: support
- textual evidence: «{They ask you to hasten the punishment… and how many a town I gave respite…} (Hajj 47, 48)»
Related books
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