This locus gathers one place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse Text as Given
and whatever living creature He spread in both of them
Brief Reading
The verse is taken as evidence that organic life began from a single origin and then spread and diversified within the law of evolution.
Loci
- Methodological
- Narrative and historical
Related Concepts
- Evolution: 2
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It establishes a law-based reading of the diversification and gradation of life.
Role of the Verse in the Argument
- Establishment: 1
Instances of Use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 196: It is used to infer that organic life began from a single origin and then spread and diversified within the law of evolution.
- Concept: Evolution
- Function of the verse here: Establishment
- Textual evidence: «And this is what the تعالى clarified in His saying {.. وَمَا بَتْ فِيهِمَا مِنْ دَابَّةٍ} (al-Shura 29)»
Related Books
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