Al-Ma'idah 4

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This locus gathers 3 instances 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

… They ask you what has been made lawful for them. Say: lawful for you are the wholesome things…

Brief reading

The verse is read to highlight the expansion of permissibility, and to distinguish the rulings of hunting from what has been attributed to it in the way of prohibition, which the verse does not indicate.

Axes

  • Legislative
  • Human and ethical
  • Wholesome things: 2
  • General permissibility: 2
  • Hunting and the lawful: 2

Its place in the network of concepts

It is linked to the concept of the lawful and the wholesome things within a structure that lifts hardship from people.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Support: 2
  • Distinction: 1

Instances of use

  • Islam and Faith, p. 18: cited to highlight the contrast between prohibitions and wholesome things in the construction of Qur’anic ethics.
    • Concept: wholesome things
    • Function of the verse here: support
    • Textual witness: «{ They ask you what has been made lawful for them. Say: lawful for you are the wholesome things… } (al-Ma’idah 4).»
  • The Book and the Qur’an, p. 391: used together with its parallels to affirm the expansion of permissibility and the lifting of hardship from people.
    • Concept: general permissibility
    • Function of the verse here: support
    • Textual witness: «– {They ask you what has been made lawful for them. Say: lawful for you are the wholesome things..} (al-Ma’idah 4)»
  • Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, pp. 60-61: he understands the verse as setting out the rulings of hunting and what you have trained of predatory animals, and denies any connection between it and the prohibition of dogs themselves, as in the transmitted report.
    • Concept: hunting and the lawful
    • Function of the verse here: distinction
    • Textual witness: «Then was revealed: { They ask you what has been made lawful for them. Say: lawful for you are the wholesome things and what you have trained of predatory animals } (al-Ma’idah 4)… Thus the verse completes what came before it by detailing what God made lawful and what He prohibited from game»
    • The corresponding traditional reading: linking it to the prohibition/killing of dogs because of the report from Abu Rafi’

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