This locus brings together 1 instance of this verse’s use in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as quoted
{YOU WOULD GRIEVE YOURSELF TO DEATH THAT THEY DO NOT BECOME BELIEVERS (3) IF WE WILLED, WE COULD SEND DOWN TO THEM FROM THE SKY A SIGN, SO THEIR NECKS WOULD REMAIN SUBMISSIVE TO IT (4)}
Brief reading
This type is distinguished as coercive guidance through a material sign that subjugates people through fear rather than conviction.
Axes
- Methodological
- Faith-based
Related concepts
- Guidance by compulsion: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into the distinction between free guidance and coercive guidance.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Distinction: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 297: This type is distinguished as coercive guidance through a material sign that subjugates people through fear rather than conviction.
- Concept: Guidance by compulsion
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «2– Guidance by compulsion… as is clear in His – تعالى – قوله: {YOU WOULD GRIEVE YOURSELF TO DEATH …} (al-Shu’ara 3, 4). Notice here how he used guidance through sending down, not through bringing down»
Related books
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