This axis gathers 4 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
“And do not say, regarding what your tongues describe as falsehood, ‘This is lawful and this is unlawful’…”
Brief reading
Shahrur uses the verse to deny human beings any right to declare things lawful or unlawful, and to confine this right to God alone, within a critical reading of the tradition.
Axes
- Legislative
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Declaring lawful and unlawful: 3
- Prohibition: 3
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters a network that regulates the boundaries of legislation and prevents the addition of prohibitions from outside the text.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of the tradition: 4
Instances of use
- Islam and Human: He uses it to critique the jurists and everyone who forbids or permits without direct divine authority.
- Concept: declaring lawful and unlawful
- Function of the verse here: critique of the tradition
- Textual citation: «{ وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَا تَصِفُ أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ الْكَذِبَ هَذَا حَلَالَ وَهَذَا حَرَامٌ … } (النحل ١١٦)»
- The corresponding traditional reading: the jurists’ statements on forbidding and permitting
- The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought, p. 26: He uses it to deny human beings the right to legislative prohibition, and to confine it to God alone.
- Concept: prohibition
- Function of the verse here: critique of the tradition
- Textual citation: «قال – تعالى –: {وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَا تَصِفُ أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ الْكَذِبَ…} (النحل 116)»
- A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 47: He employs it to critique those who add prohibitions or deem lawful what God has forbidden without authority.
- Concept: declaring lawful and unlawful
- Function of the verse here: critique of the tradition
- Textual citation: «For uttering false claims about God is forbidden … as He says: { وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَا تَصِفُ أَلْسِنَتُكُمْ الْكَذِبَ هَذَا حَلَالٌ وَهَذَا حَرَامٌ … } (النحل ١١٦).»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 126: He uses it to deny human beings the right to add new prohibitions of their own making.
- Concept: prohibition
- Function of the verse here: critique of the tradition
- Textual citation: «{ وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَا تَصِفُ أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ الْكَذِبَ هَذَا خَلَالَ وَهَذَا حَرَامٌ … } (النحل ١١٦)،»
Related books
- Islam and Human
- The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought
- A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence
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