This axis brings together 3 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
Say to the believing men that they lower their gaze and guard their private parts…
Brief reading
The verse is taken as a basis for guarding the private parts and lowering the gaze, as an initial general obligation before the other details.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Legislative
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Guarding the private parts: 2
- Covering: 2
- Lowering the gaze: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to the principle of covering and to building ethical obligation on a shared basis.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Foundational: 2
- Support: 1
Uses
- Islam and Faith, p. 220: He makes it one of the texts on the general guarding of the private parts for believing men, as a prelude to distinguishing chastity by means of what the right hands possess from restriction to marriage.
- Concept: guarding the private parts
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «- {قُلْ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ وَيَحْفَظُوا فُرُوجَهُمْ…} (النور ٣٠).»
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 29: He uses it to determine the minimum covering for a man’s clothing, linking it to guarding the private parts and making what goes beyond that subject to custom and taste.
- Concept: covering
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: «* [قُلْ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ …] (النور ٣٠). Here … he defines for the believers what must be covered of their bodies»
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 288: He pairs it with An-Nur 31 to establish equivalence between men and women in the initial obligation: lowering the gaze and guarding the private parts.
- Concept: lowering the gaze
- Function of the verse here: Foundational
- Textual evidence: «He – exalted be He – says regarding the man: { قُلْ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ… } (النور ٣٠)»
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