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
And do not marry women whom your fathers married, except what has already passed. Indeed, it was an indecency, something detestable, and an evil way.
Brief reading
The verse is used to distinguish the sphere of prohibition in marriage from the sphere of procreation, and to define the boundaries of the prohibited degrees of kinship.
Axes
- Legislative
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Marriage and procreation: 2
- Prohibited degrees of kinship: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into regulating terms and distinguishing between spheres of rulings.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Distinction: 1
- Establishment: 1
Instances of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 208: He uses it to argue that the verse concerns the prohibition of marriage, and that it is separate from the prohibition of procreation; therefore, he distinguishes between the two spheres.
- Concept: marriage and procreation
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «{وَلَا تَنْكِحُوا مَا نَكَحَ أَبَاوُكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ…} (an-Nisa 22).»
- The corresponding traditional reading: the understanding that combines the prohibition in marriage and procreation together
- The State and Society, p. 47: It is treated as part of the history of family formation in order to show that the prohibition of certain marriages came gradually with the development of society.
- Concept: prohibited degrees of kinship
- Function of the verse here: Establishment
- Textual evidence: «And all these stages came in: - {وَلا تَنْكِحُوا مَا نَك َحَ آبَاؤُكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ إِلَّا مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَاحِشَةً وَمَقْتًا وَسَاءَ سَبِيلًا} (an-Nisa 22),»
Related books
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