This axis brings together 2 places 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
وَرَهْبَانِيَّةً ابْتَدَعُوهَا مَا كَتَبْنَاهَا عَلَيْهِمْ إِلَّا ابْتِغَاءَ رِضْوَانِ اللَّهِ فَمَا رَعَوْهَا حَقَّ رِعَايَتِهَا
Brief reading
Shahrur reads it as a rejection of monasticism as a compulsory option, and treats it as one of the historical phenomena that went against human nature.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Legislative
Related concepts
- Monasticism: 3
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to his critique of invented asceticism outside the requirements of the message.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of the inherited tradition: 2
Places of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 44: He cites it to argue that monasticism was a historical obligation and then was abrogated in the Muhammadan message because it runs counter to human nature.
- Concept: Monasticism
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the inherited tradition
- Textual evidence: «{… وَرَهْبَانِيَّةً ابْتَدَعُوهَا مَا كَتَبْنَاهَا عَلَيْهِمْ…} (iron 27).»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 19: He uses it to state that God did not impose monasticism on Jesus’s followers; rather, they invented it themselves.
- Concept: Monasticism
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the inherited tradition
- Textual evidence: «{… وَرَهْبَانِيَّةً ابْتَدَعُوهَا مَا كَتَبْنَاهَا عَلَيْهِمْ …} (iron 27)»
- Counter-traditional reading: He rejects considering monasticism a divine obligation
Related books
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