This axis gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And I do not think the Hour will ever come… His companion said to him, while he was conversing with him: Have you disbelieved in the One who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then fashioned you into a man?
Brief reading
The verse is used to criticize denying the Hour and denying gradual creation as a departure from the axis of becoming.
Axes
- Faith-related
- Methodological
Associated concepts
- the Hour: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to revisiting inherited positions that deny the Last Day or movement.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of the tradition: 1
Instances of use
- Towards New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 23: It is cited to argue that denying the Hour and denying gradual creation amounts to unbelief in the axis of becoming and in the Last Day.
- Concept: the Hour
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the tradition
- Textual evidence: «{ … AND I DO NOT THINK THE HOUR WILL EVER COME … } (al-Kahf 36–39).»
Related books
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