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
  • 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).»

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