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
HE SENT DOWN FROM THE SKY WATER, AND VALLEYS FLOWED ACCORDING TO THEIR MEASURE, AND THE FLOOD CARRIED A RISING FOAM …
Brief reading
Shahrur treats it as a comprehensive example for distinguishing useful truth from transient falsehood, linking it to induction and deduction.
Axes
- Methodological
- Legislative
Related concepts
- Truth and falsehood: 3
Its place in the conceptual network
It serves the network of distinguishing between useful permanence and dissipating transience.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
- Support: 1
Places of use
- The State and Society, p. 33: He analyzes it as a comprehensive example of both induction and deduction, and makes it a model for distinguishing useful truth from false foam.
- Concept: Truth and falsehood
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual citation: «{HE SENT DOWN FROM THE SKY WATER, AND VALLEYS FLOWED ACCORDING TO THEIR MEASURE…} (Thunder 17).»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 120: He employs it to reassure the reader that rigid historical jurisprudence is what passes away, whereas what benefits people remains.
- Concept: Truth and falsehood
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: «{THUS GOD STRIKES THE TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD … } (Thunder 17).»
Related books
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