This axis brings together 1 locus of use for this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, with a linkage to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
O tranquil soul, return to your Lord, pleased and pleasing. So enter among My servants, and enter My Garden.
Brief reading
The verses support linking death to the soul, not to the spirit, while leaving what the soul sees present until the Resurrection.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Soul: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to the concept of the soul within a semantic structure specific to death and what comes after it.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Uses
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 321: He uses the verse to link death to the soul, not to the spirit, and to demonstrate that what the soul sees at death remains established for it until the Resurrection.
- Concept: soul
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: “As for the soul that sees, at the moment of death, spirit, fragrance, and a garden of bliss… it is the one about whom He تعالى said: {O tranquil soul… and enter My Garden} (al-Fajr 27–30)“
Related books
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