This axis gathers 1 usage locus for this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.

The verse text as cited

{ When they have reached their term, then retain them in a fitting manner or part from them in a fitting manner … And for those who are pregnant, their term is that they deliver their burden }

Brief reading

The verse derives the rulings of the waiting period, maintenance, housing, and nursing, and turns divorce into a detailed regulatory framework rather than a mere termination of the contract.

Axes

  • Legislative
  • Divorce: 2

Its place in the conceptual network

It establishes an organized legislative field for the family relationship after divorce.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Establishment: 1

Usage locations

  • Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, pp. 255-256: He derives from it the rulings of the waiting period, maintenance, housing, and nursing, and makes it a detailed regulation of the state of divorce rather than a mere termination of the contract.
    • Concept: Divorce
    • Function of the verse here: Establishment
    • Textual evidence: «For we find that God — exalted be He — also commands retaining in kindness or parting in kindness, and that divorce, like marriage, requires witnesses»

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