This axis brings together 2 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking them to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
{Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed God, and whoever turns away—We have not sent you over them as a guardian}
Brief reading
The verse is used to distinguish binding obedience associated with the message from other acts.
Axes
- Faith-related
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Connected obedience: 2
- Obedience to the Messenger: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into regulating the meaning of obedience and its limits within the community.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Distinction: 1
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- The State and Society, p. 303: He uses it as part of the distinction between binding obedience as religious proclamation and other acts of the Prophet.
- Concept: connected obedience
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «- {مَنْ يُطِع الرَّسُولَ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللهَ … فَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفِيظًا} (النساء 80),»
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna, p. 86: He takes it as evidence that obedience to the Messenger is, in reality, obedience to God when it falls within the station of the message.
- Concept: obedience to the Messenger
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «{مَنْ يُطِعِ الرَّسُولَ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللَّهَ…} النساء ٨٠.»
Related books
- The State and Society
- The Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
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