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 it appears

About what are they asking one another? * About the momentous tiding

Brief reading

Shahrur makes the Last Day a momentous tidings because it belongs to the future unseen, not to observed report.

Axes

  • Faith-related
  • Linguistic and semantic
  • The Last Day: 2
  • Future unseen: 1
  • Observed report: 1

Its place in the conceptual network

It links faith in the unseen with distinguishing between types of report.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Example: 1

Uses

  • The Book and the Qur’an, p. 82: He makes the Last Day a momentous tidings because it is from the future unseen, not from observed report.
    • Concept: The Last Day
    • Function of the verse here: Example
    • Textual evidence: «{About what are they asking one another? * About the momentous tiding} (The Event 1, 2) and here He described the Last Day as tidings because it is also a future unseen.»

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