This locus 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 given
WE HAVE DECREED DEATH AMONG YOU, AND WE ARE NOT TO BE OUTSTRIPPED
Brief reading
Through this verse, Shahrur establishes a definition of qadar as objective existence and laws, and distinguishes it from qada’ as practices within this framework.
Axes
- Methodological
- Faith-based
Related concepts
- qadar: 2
- qada’: 1
- laws: 1
- objective existence: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It enters into regulating the two concepts and distinguishing their domains.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 25: He makes it the basis for defining qadar as objective existence and laws, and contrasts it with qada’ as practices within this framework.
- Concept: qadar
- Function of the verse here: establishing
- Textual evidence: “{WE HAVE DECREED DEATH AMONG YOU, AND WE ARE NOT TO BE OUTSTRIPPED} (al-Waqi‘a 60).”
- Counter-traditional reading: the traditional concept of qadar as the execution of God’s eternal knowledge
Related books
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