This locus gathers one instance of Muhammad Shahrur’s use of this verse in his books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as cited
And the Messenger said, “My Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’an as something abandoned.”
Brief reading
The verse supports the idea that the Arabs in the Prophet’s time practically abandoned the Qur’an and did not deal with it as an interpreted text.
Axes
- Faith
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Abandoning the Qur’an: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It connects the community’s stance toward the text with its function as guidance.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 115: He uses it to argue that the Arabs in the Prophet’s time did not deal with the Qur’an as an interpreted text, but rather abandoned it in practice.
- Concept: Abandoning the Qur’an
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: “… as indicated by His, glory be to Him, reference to it in His saying: {And the Messenger said, ‘My Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’an as something abandoned.’}”
Related books
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