This axis brings together 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, while linking it to the concepts and arguments that emerge around it.
The verse text as quoted
And another of its kind, spouses
Brief reading
He uses it to affirm that spouses in the hereafter fall within a special eschatological system, and that both Paradise and Hell have spouses within their respective domains.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Spouses of Paradise: 2
- Spouses of Hell: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is connected to his conception of the world of the hereafter as a structure different from the worldly life in the details of bliss and punishment.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Context: 2
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 207: He cites it to argue that the existence of spouses in the hereafter is of another kind, established within Paradise and Hell rather than between them.
- Concept: Spouses of Paradise
- Function of the verse here: Context
- Textual evidence: «So in Paradise there are spouses {THEY AND THEIR SPOUSES} and in Hell there are spouses {AND ANOTHER OF ITS KIND, SPOUSES} (p. 58).»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 207: He uses it to establish that Hell also has spouses, but within an eschatological system different from that of worldly life.
- Concept: Spouses of Hell
- Function of the verse here: Context
- Textual evidence: «And in Hell there are spouses {AND ANOTHER OF ITS KIND, SPOUSES} (p. 58).»
Related books
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