This locus gathers 2 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
Have you not seen that God is glorified by whoever is in the heavens and the earth, and by the birds in flight, each having known its prayer and its glorification
Brief reading
It is cited to establish that prayer here means connection to God, not the ritual, because the example given cannot accommodate the rites of bowing and prostration.
Loci
- Faith
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Prayer: 3
Its place in the conceptual network
It serves his distinction between prayer as connection and prayer as a ritual practice.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Distinction: 2
Places of use
- Islam and Human Being: He makes it evidence that prayer here is connection to God, not ritual, because birds do not perform the rites of bowing and prostration.
- Concept: Prayer
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «{ Have you not seen that God is glorified by … } (Light 41) (here prayer with alif).»
- Islam and Faith, p. 254: He makes it evidence that prayer with alif is connection, glorification, and supplication, because birds do not perform the rites of bowing and prostration.
- Concept: Prayer
- Function of the verse here: Distinction
- Textual evidence: «And in His saying تعالى: {Have you not seen that God is glorified by… each has known its prayer and its glorification…} (Light 41) (here prayer with alif).»
Related books
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