This axis gathers 1 location where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, together with the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
Indeed, We sent against them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune… it plucks people out as though they were trunks of uprooted palm trees
Brief reading
The two verses come as an example of how, for Shahrur, the Qur’anic wording may indicate the continuity of punishment rather than its interruption.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Continuity: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to the path of explaining the signification of the word and of time in Qur’anic expression.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Example: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 313: he cites the two verses to argue that the singular word “wind” denotes a continuous pulse of punishment, not intermittent gusts, and that “continuous” determines the time-span of continuity in the event.
- Concept: continuity
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual evidence: “{Indeed, We sent against them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune} (al-Qamar 19)… so he followed the verse with His saying, {it plucks people out as though they were trunks of uprooted palm trees} (al-Qamar 20).”
Related books
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