This axis gathers 3 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And present to them an example: two men—We granted to one of them two gardens … and I do not think the Hour will ever come … He is Allah, my Lord, and I do not associate anyone with my Lord.
Brief reading
The story is taken as a model for explaining shirk in lordship through attributing permanence to things and denying the law of change and annihilation.
Axes
- Faith-related
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Shirk in lordship: 3
- Permanence and annihilation: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It connects belief in permanence with the human stance toward transformation and disappearance.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 2
- Foundation: 1
Places of use
- Islam and Man: He takes the parable from al-Kahf as a model for explaining shirk in lordship through attributing permanence to things and rejecting the law of change and annihilation.
- Concept: permanence and annihilation
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «{ And present to them an example: two men … } (al-Kahf 32–38).»
- Islam and Man: He turns the parable into a model through which he explains how shirk arises when permanence is attributed to phenomena and change and annihilation are denied.
- Concept: shirk in lordship
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «The way shirk occurs through describing phenomena as enduring has already been explained… through the example that Almighty God gave us in Surat al-Kahf: { And present to them an example: two men … } (al-Kahf 32–38).»
- Islam and Faith, p. 112: He uses the story of the two men to explain that supposing blessings will remain as they are is shirk in lordship and a denial of the law of change and disappearance.
- Concept: shirk in lordship
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «Through the example that Almighty God gave us in Surat al-Kahf: { And present to them an example: two men … } (al-Kahf 32–38).»
Related books
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