This hub brings together 6 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
Indeed, God does not forgive that partners be associated with Him…
Brief reading
In Shahrur’s view, the verse is made a foundation for the idea that shirk is the unforgivable sin, and that its most severe form is embodying God or associating Him in worship.
Hubs
- Faith
- Methodological
- Legislative
Related concepts
- Shirk: 6
- Embodiment shirk: 2
Its place in the concept network
It is connected to defining the meaning of shirk and its limits within the network of forgiveness and tawhid.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 4
- Foundation: 2
Summary of its presence in the atlas
- The unforgivable shirk
- Linked to embodying God
- Strong presence in the chapter on tawhid
Pages in the atlas that refer to this verse
These links collect the pages that rely on the verse or make it part of the argument within the atlas.
Related atoms
Places of use
- Islam and the Human Being: He presents it as evidence that associating partners with God falls within forbidden sin and comes at the head of the prohibitions.
- Concept: Shirk
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «- إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ … } (النساء ٤٨)»
- Islam and the Human Being: He uses it to state that shirk is the only unforgivable sin, in contrast to other sins that may be forgiven through repentance.
- Concept: Shirk
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «{ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ… } (النساء ٤٨)»
- Islam and the Human Being: With An-Nisa 116, he makes it the basis for the claim that shirk alone is unforgivable.
- Concept: Shirk
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «As an exception, for one sin that cannot be forgiven, namely shirk, this appears in His saying تعالى: { إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ … } (النساء ٤٨ و١١٦).»
- Drying up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 45: He makes the verse the basis for defining the gravest form of shirk in his view as embodying God or associating Him in worship.
- Concept: Embodiment shirk
- Function of the verse here: Foundation
- Textual evidence: «The shirk that God will not forgive is the shirk of embodiment, and this is what is meant in the verse: {إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ …}»
- Guide to Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 40: He relies on it to define shirk as belief in fixity, embodiment, and intellectual stagnation, not merely apparent ritual shirk.
- Concept: Shirk
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «{ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَنْ يُشْرَكَ بِهِ … } (النساء ٤٨).»
- Guide to Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 49: He uses it to include shirk within the meaning of sin as a major falling away from truth.
- Concept: Shirk
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «Likewise, whoever associates partners with God has committed a tremendous sin: { … وَمَنْ يُشْرِكْ بِاللهِ فَقَدِ افْتَرَى إِثْمًا عَظِيمًا } (النساء ٤٨)»
Related books
- Islam and the Human Being
- Drying up the Sources of Terrorism
- Guide to Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation
This page is presented within the general method of building the atlas.