This locus gathers 1 place of use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, along with the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
﴿And recite to them the report of Adam’s two sons in truth, when they both offered a sacrifice, and it was accepted from one of them and not accepted from the other. He said, “I will surely kill you.” He said, “Allah only accepts from the God-fearing … Because of that, We prescribed for the Children of Israel …”﴾
Brief reading
Through it, Shahrur establishes the idea that acceptance of the sacrifice is linked to piety, not to the type of sacrifice or inherited privileges.
Axes
- Human and moral
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- piety: 2
- sacrifice: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It links the criterion of acceptance to moral action, not to belonging.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Foundational: 1
Places of use
- The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 1, p. 262: He relies on the story to state that the acceptance of the sacrifice is linked to piety, not to the type of sacrifice or to bloodline or agricultural privileges.
- Concept: piety
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual citation: “God Almighty says: ﴿وَاتَّلْ عَلَيْهِمْ نَبَأَ ابْنَيْ آدَمَ…﴾ (al-Mā’idah 27 - 32).”
- Countervailing traditional reading: The exegetes attribute the cause of the killing to gender or to the type of sacrifice, whereas the Wise Revelation does not address the type of sacrifice.
Related books
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