This axis brings together 1 locus where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Text of the Verse as Cited
Indeed, We have granted you a clear conquest …
Reader’s Answer
Question
How does Shahrur employ verses 1–3 of al-Fath as an example of the Qur’an’s explicit statement of purpose?
Shahrur uses the verses as an example that the purpose may be mentioned within the same context; he reads what follows the announcement of the conquest as an enumeration of four aims: forgiveness, completion of grace, guidance, and victory.
Shahrur presents the conquest in verses 1–3 as an act whose purposes are stated immediately in the following verses. In this passage, he identifies four aims of the conquest: forgiveness, completion of grace, guidance to the straight path, and mighty victory. Shahrur uses this example to support his methodological idea that the purposes of some Qur’anic acts or obligations are explicitly stated in the text.
Evidence and Location
Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism — p. 83.
Limits of the Reading
- This presentation describes Shahrur’s use of the verses and does not elaborate on the exegetical or grammatical implications of each expression in the verses.
- The evidence establishes the specific example of the verses of al-Fath, but by itself is insufficient to establish a comprehensive generalization concerning all Qur’anic passages that mention purposes.
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Brief Reading
The verses are used as an example that the Qur’an sometimes states the purpose explicitly, helping to compare purposes with other passages.
Axes
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related Concepts
- Purposes: 2
Its Place in the Conceptual Network
It serves the comparison between the explicit statement of purpose and its absence in other texts.
The Verse’s Role in the Argument
- Example: 1
Contexts of Use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 83: He cites it as evidence that the Qur’an sometimes mentions purposes explicitly, comparing this with the verse on fighting, in which the purpose is not stated directly.
- Concept: purposes
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: “When God spoke … {Indeed, We have granted you a clear conquest…} (al-Fath 1–3), we find that He enumerated four aims for this conquest.”
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