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
If you stretch out your hand toward me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand toward you to kill you
Brief reading
Shahrur links it to the growth of human conscience and to the emergence of a social prohibition against killing the self.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Political and social
Associated concepts
- Rejection of killing: 2
- Conscience: 1
- Godfearingness: 1
Its place in the network of concepts
It places killing within the framework of ethical and social transformation.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 269: He employs it to connect the growth of human conscience and Godfearingness with the emergence of a social prohibition against killing the self.
- Concept: Rejection of killing
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «and the emergence of the social concept of rejecting the killing of the self, as God Most High says (.٨٢) al-Māʾida»
Related books
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