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
Related concepts
- 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»
Related books
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