This axis gathers 1 instance 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 quoted

And fruit, from what they choose, and fowl meat, from what they desire

Brief reading

Shahrur makes the verse a witness that desire is tied to choice and consciousness in food, not merely to natural eating.

Axes

  • Human and ethical
  • Methodological
  • Conscious choice: 2
  • Desire: 1
  • Food: 1
  • Choice: 1

Its place in the network of concepts

It serves his distinction between conscious desire and natural behavior.

The verse’s role in the argument

  • Example: 1

Places of use

  • The State and Society, p. 179: He makes it a witness that desire is tied to choice and consciousness in food, not merely to uncaused natural eating.
    • Concept: conscious choice
    • Function of the verse here: Example
    • Textual evidence: «- {وَفَاكِهَةٍ مِمَّا يَتَخَيَّرُونَ (20) وَلَحْمِ طَيْرٍ مِمَّا يَشْتَهُونَ} (al-Waqiعة 20, 21).»

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