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 brings forth the living from the dead, and brings forth the dead from the living, and He gives life to the earth after its death; and thus you will be brought forth
Brief reading
Shahrur takes it as an example of death in nature as a succession and a cycle of transition between two states.
Axes
- Methodological
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Life cycle: 2
- Succession: 2
Its place in the concept network
It is connected to the idea of continuous transformation in the objective world.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
- Establishment: 1
Places of use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 291: He cites it to explain death in nature as a succession and a cycle of transition between two states.
- Concept: life cycle
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: «His saying – تعالى –: {يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ …} (الروم ١٩)»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 291: He uses it to argue that death in nature is a phenomenon of succession and transition between two states, with no rupture in between.
- Concept: succession
- Function of the verse here: establishment
- Textual evidence: «As for things of nature, there is His saying – تعالى –: {يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ …} (الروم ١٩)»
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