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
Indeed, those who slander chaste, unaware, believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter, and for them is a tremendous punishment
Brief reading
The verse is employed to distinguish the meaning of chastity in slander, and to reject restricting the understanding to the causes of revelation.
Axes
- Legislative
Related concepts
- Slander: 2
- Causes of revelation: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It brings together the regulation of legal ruling and the critique of a narrow historical reading.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Distinguishing: 1
- Critiquing the tradition: 1
Instances of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 222: He uses it to distinguish between chastity through marriage and absolute chastity, because slander may be directed at a chaste woman who is not married.
- Concept: Slander
- Function of the verse here: Distinguishing
- Textual citation: «- إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ لُعِنُوا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ… (النور ٢٣).»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 94: He cites it as an example of how tying understanding solely to the causes of revelation effaces universality and turns the text into a local historical one.
- Concept: Causes of revelation
- Function of the verse here: Critiquing the tradition
- Textual citation: «Do you mean that the Almighty’s saying: { And do not compel your slave girls into prostitution } (al-Nur 23) cannot be understood and applied except after we know …»
Related books
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