This axis brings together 1 location where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as quoted
Thus it was that no messenger ever came to those before them
Brief reading
He uses it to distinguish the meaning of “ata” as belonging within the circle of the addressee or the subject in question, unlike “ja’a.”
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Coming: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to clarifying the difference between terms in Qur’anic usage.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Distinction: 1
Locations of use
- Toward a New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 136: He uses it to explain that “ata” falls within the circle of the addressee/the one concerned with the subject, unlike “ja’a.”
- Concept: coming
- Function of the verse here: distinction
- Textual evidence: “{ Thus it was that no messenger ever came to those before them except that they said… } (Al-Dhāriyāt 52),”
Related books
This page is presented within the general methodology of atlas construction.