This axis gathers 1 location of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, connecting it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And you did not recite before it any book, nor did you write it with your right hand; otherwise, the falsifiers would have doubted
Brief reading
The verse establishes the principle of holding fast to the Book of God as the authority by which people do not go astray.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Book of God: 2
- holding fast: 1
- misguidance: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters into the construction of the text’s reference center.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Establishment: 1
Locations of use
- The messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna, p. 17: It highlights the report in its first formulation to affirm that holding fast to the Book of God is the original principle by which people do not go astray.
- Concept: Book of God
- Function of the verse here: Establishment
- Textual evidence: ««I leave among you that after which you will never go astray if you hold fast to it: the Book of God»»
- The corresponding traditional reading: the inserted addition “and my progeny, the people of my household” and “and the Sunna of His Prophet”
Related books
- The messengerly Sunna and the prophetic Sunna
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