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.
Text of the verse as cited
{Messengers bearing good tidings and warnings, so that people would have no argument against God after the messengers …}
Brief reading
For Shahrur, the verse establishes the idea that the function of the messengers is communication and establishing the argument, not coercion over people.
Axes
- Methodological
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Communication through argument: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It falls within the construction of the relationship between the call and social responsibility.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 298: Cites it to affirm that the function of the messengers is to establish the argument against people through communication, not coercion.
- Concept: Communication through argument
- The function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «And in His saying: {Messengers bearing good tidings and warnings …} (An-Nisa 165). Thus the argument and the proof were God’s signs and words»
Related books
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