This locus 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.
Text of the Verse as Cited
Say: He is the One who brought you into being and made for you hearing, sight, and hearts. Little are you grateful.
Reader’s Answer
Question
How does Shahrur employ Qur’an 67:23 in his discussion of human knowledge?
Shahrur cites Qur’an 67:23 together with Qur’an 16:78 and Qur’an 32:9 as part of a group of verses that mention hearing, sight, and hearts as things made for the human being. This grouping permits a cautious attribution to his reading: the verse forms part of a presentation of the faculties of perception granted to the human being, rather than serving as an independent, detailed proof of a complete epistemological theory.
Shahrur cites Qur’an 67:23 alongside Qur’an 16:78 and Qur’an 32:9 because all three verses mention the making of hearing, sight, and hearts for the human being.
Citation and Location
The Book and the Qur’an — p. 228.
Limits of the Reading
- The citation establishes that Shahrur groups the verse with Qur’an 16:78 and Qur’an 32:9, but the excerpt does not explain the meaning of hearing, sight, and hearts individually, nor does it specify a detailed epistemological function for each.
- This passage alone is insufficient for attributing to Shahrur a comprehensive theory of the origin or stages of knowledge; the inference is limited to the fact that the verse is part of a textual group concerning the faculties of perception.
- The phrase “created and granted from the outset,” in its full interpretive formulation, is not established by the cited text alone, although the wording of the verses does mention their being made for the human being.
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Brief Reading
Shahrur groups it with Qur’an 16:78 to emphasize that hearing and sight are faculties of knowledge granted to the human being from the outset.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Methodological
Related Concepts
- Hearing and sight: 2
- Faculties of human knowledge: 1
Its Place in the Network of Concepts
It supports his conception of the sources and limits of human knowledge.
Role of the Verse in the Argument
- Support: 1
Instances of Use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 228: He groups it with Qur’an 16:78 to emphasize that the faculties of human knowledge are created and granted to the human being from the outset.
- Concept: Hearing and sight
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual citation: “{Say: He is the One who brought you into being and made for you hearing, sight, and hearts} (Qur’an 67:23).”
Related Books
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