This axis brings together 3 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the verse as cited
Has there come to you the report of the Overwhelming Event?
Reader’s answer
Question
How does Muhammad Shahrur read God’s saying: “Has there come to you the report of the Overwhelming Event?”
Shahrur reads the verse by treating “the report of the Overwhelming Event” as news concerning a future unseen matter, and makes it an example of how “hadith” in this context relates to verses concerning cosmic events, rather than verses of rulings and legislation.
Shahrur presents “the report of the Overwhelming Event” as an example of news concerning an event that will occur in the future; he therefore regards it as part of the future unseen.
Citation and location
The Book and the Qur’an — p. 82.
Limits of the reading
- This presents Shahrur’s terminological reading of the verse; it is not a judgment that this is the only or universally accepted interpretation of the term “hadith.”
- The citation does not demonstrate in detail all the meanings or themes of Surat al-Ghashiyah; rather, it establishes Shahrur’s use of the verse as an example of future unseen news.
- This passage alone is insufficient to establish a comprehensive definition of the relationship of “hadith” to all its Qur’anic occurrences, since the text sets forth this classification within Shahrur’s own framework.
Continue from here
- The Book and the Qur’an
- Qur’anic Narratives, vol. 2
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation
Brief reading
The verse is read as news of a coming future, and falls within the construction of the concept of hadith, which includes news about the unseen and events.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Hadith: 3
- Future unseen: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to the concept of hadith in its relation to what will occur later.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Example: 2
- Foundation: 1
Instances of use
- Qur’anic Narratives, vol. 2, p. 7: He employs it together with other verses to establish that the Qur’an combines cosmic and historical events in its structure.
- Concept: hadith
- Function of the verse here: foundation
- Textual citation: “{ Has there come to you the report of the Overwhelming Event?} (al-Ghashiyah 1)”
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 82: He considers the hadith here to be future news because the Overwhelming Event belongs to the coming unseen.
- Concept: future unseen
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual citation: “And an example is His saying, Exalted be He: {Has there come to you the report of the Overwhelming Event?} (al-Ghashiyah 1). The hadith in the verse includes news because it is future unseen.”
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 34: He cites it within his definition of hadith as news concerning cosmic and human events.
- Concept: hadith
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual citation: “{ Has there come to you the report of the Overwhelming Event? } (al-Ghashiyah 1)”
Related books
- Qur’anic Narratives, vol. 2
- The Book and the Qur’an
- Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation
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