This locus brings together two places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

Verse text as cited

And fear the One who has supplied you with what you know * supplied you with livestock and sons

Brief reading

He compares it with Noah’s verse to say that livestock later came to pass as a reality of what Noah foretold.

Axes

  • Political and social
  • Narrative and historical

Associated concepts

  • Livestock: 2
  • Adaptation: 1

Its place in the network of concepts

It is connected to livestock as a sign of the fulfillment of promises in a historical trajectory.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Support: 2

Places of use

  • The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 2, p. 48: He compares it with Noah’s verse to say that livestock later came to pass as a reality of what Noah foretold in terms of wealth and sons.
    • Concept: Livestock
    • Function of the verse here: Support
    • Textual evidence: «{ وَاتَّقُوا الَّذِي أَمَدَكُمْ بِمَا تَعْلَمُونَ * أَمَدُكُمْ بِأَنْعَامٍ وَبَنِينَ} (الشعراء ١٣٢-١٣٣)»
  • The State and Society, p. 77: He cites it to link the stage of human settlement with the development of means of production, livestock, and construction within the law of adaptation to nature.
    • Concept: Adaptation
    • Function of the verse here: Support
    • Textual evidence: «For His saying – تعالى –: {وَاتَّقُوا الَّذِي أَمَدَكُمْ بِمَا تَعْلَمُونَ (132) أَمَدَكُمْ بِأَنْعَامٍ وَبَنِينَ} (الشعراء 132-133, 133), as man settled in this stage in places of settlement»

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