This axis brings together 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
فَإِذَا أُحْصِنَّ فَإِنْ أَتَيْنَ بِفَاحِشَةٍ فَعَلَيْهِنَّ نِصْفُ مَا عَلَى الْمُحْصَنَاتِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ
Brief reading
The verse is employed to refute the juristic understanding that interpreted it as stoning, and to show the effect of the inherited reading on the meaning of slave women.
Axes
- Legislative
Related concepts
- Punishment: 2
- Slave women: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters into the reconsideration of the legal penalty and the meaning of the expression circulated in the heritage tradition.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Critique of the heritage tradition: 2
Instances of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 55: He uses it to refute the juristic claim of stoning to death, because the verse requires half the punishment, not half the execution.
- Concept: Punishment
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the heritage tradition
- Textual evidence: «{… فَإِذَا أُحْصِنَّ فَإِنْ أَتَيْنَ بِفَاحِشَةٍ فَعَلَيْهِنَّ نِصْفُ مَا عَلَى الْمُحْصَنَاتِ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ…} (النساء ٢٥).»
- The corresponding traditional reading: The jurists say: it is stoning to death. And we say: this is not correct!!
- The State and Society, p. 266: He cites the traditional reading to confirm that the commentators loaded “what your right hands possess” with the meaning of owned slave women.
- Concept: Slave women
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the heritage tradition
- Textual evidence: «Al-Tabari states: … i.e., then marry from the believing slave women»
- The corresponding traditional reading: Slave women
Related books
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