This axis gathers one instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
{If We had sent down this Qur’an upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled, split apart from fear of God. And such parables We strike for people so that they may reflect.}
Brief reading
He uses it to establish the difference between a sending-down that brings a thing into perception and a merely physical placement that does not alter perception.
Axes
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Sending down and perception: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It serves a conceptual construction that links sending down with perception and knowledge.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 1
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 154: He uses the verse to establish the difference between the Qur’an entering the perceptions of a thing and thereby making it knowing, and a physical placement that does not change perception.
- Concept: Sending down and perception
- Function of the verse here: Establishing
- Textual evidence: “So I say: since the contents of the Qur’an are all the sciences of objective, material, and historical reality, if this Qur’an were sent down upon a mountain, ‘that is, if it entered the mountain’s perceptions,’ the mountain would become knowing”
Related books
This page is presented within the general methodology of atlas construction.