Al-Waqi‘a 75-77

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.

Verse text as cited

{ SO I SWEAR BY THE POSITIONS OF THE STARS * AND IT IS INDEED AN OATH—IF ONLY YOU KNEW—MIGHTY * INDEED, IT IS A NOBLE QUR’AN }

Shahrur interprets the verse as referring to the verse separators and keys to semantic ordering in the Book, not to the stars of the sky.

It serves his structural reading of the text.

A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation, p. 35: He interprets it as referring to the verse separators and keys to semantic ordering in the Book, not to the stars of the sky.
- Concept: positions of the stars
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{ فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِمَوَاقِعِ النُّجُومِ … } (al-Waqi‘a 75–77).»

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