This axis brings together 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
… So We stirred up between them enmity and hatred …
Brief reading
Shahrur reads it as treating hatred as a historical punishment and a curse, not as a praiseworthy religious value.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- hatred: 2
- punishment: 1
- curse: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to the transformation of hatred from a negative ethical meaning into a historical consequence of disobedience.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 187: Cited as evidence that hatred is a historical punishment and curse, not a religious virtue.
- Concept: hatred
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{… So We stirred up between them enmity and hatred…} (al-Māʾida 14).»
Related books
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