This axis brings together 2 places of use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as it appears
And married women from among women, except those whom your right hands possess…
Brief reading
The two verses affirm the value of filial piety, and are also read to distinguish marriage from right-hand possession.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Legislative
Related concepts
- Filial piety: 2
- Right-hand possession: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It combines a general human value with a legislative limit on relations with women.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
- Distinction: 1
Places of use
- Islam and Human Beings: He employs it to establish that filial piety is an innate value and that Islam reaffirms it legislatively.
- Concept: Filial piety
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «- { … AND SHOW KINDNESS TO PARENTS … } (al-Nisa’ 36), - { AND YOUR LORD HAS DECREED THAT YOU WORSHIP NONE BUT HIM, AND [SHOW] KINDNESS TO PARENTS … } (al-Isra’ 23-24)»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 231: He uses the two verses to distinguish between marriage and right-hand possession, and maintains that the text opens more than one option in the relationship between man and woman according to the Book of God.
- Concept: Right-hand possession
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «In the two verses on the forbidden degrees of marriage, we understand from His – exalted be He – saying: { AND MARRIED WOMEN FROM AMONG WOMEN, EXCEPT THOSE WHOM YOUR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS … }»
Related books
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