This axis gathers 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
إِلَّا أَنْ يَأْتِينَ بِفَاحِشَةٍ مُبَيِّنَةٍ
Brief reading
The verse is used to support a reading that makes it a guardian of rights and opposed to turning hatred into a binding basis.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Legislative
Associated concepts
- Rights: 2
- Hatred: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It connects the preservation of rights with the refusal to make aversion a governing criterion.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 2
Places of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 55: He cites it to argue that the penalty for the manifest obscenity in the case of the wife is the forfeiture of financial and social rights, not stoning or flogging.
- Concept: rights
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{… إِلَّا أَنْ يَأْتِينَ بِفَاحِشَةٍ مُبَيِّنَةٍ…} (an-Nisa 19), and the penalty here is deprivation of financial and social rights»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 187: He reinforces with it his rejection of turning love and hatred into a binding doctrinal basis.
- Concept: hatred
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{فَعَسَى أَنْ تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئًا وَيَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ فِيهِ خَيْرًا كَثِيرًا} (an-Nisa 19).»
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