This axis brings together 2 instances 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 cited
Indeed, for you there is that you will not go hungry therein, nor be naked, and that you will not thirst therein, nor suffer the midday heat
Brief reading
He uses it to depict Adam’s stage in Paradise as a stage of care and preparation before independence, not as an eschatological Paradise.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- First stage of Paradise: 2
- Adam’s Paradise: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is tied to the rearrangement of Adam’s story within a historical-formative conception different from the inherited reading.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
- Critique of the tradition: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 214: He uses the verse to portray Adam’s stage in Paradise as a stage of care and preparation before the move to independence and responsibility.
- Concept: First stage of Paradise
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: «{Indeed, for you there is that you will not go hungry therein, nor be naked …} (Taha 118, 119), and in this stage he needed nothing … except concern for himself»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 207: He rejects the traditional reading that makes it an eschatological Paradise, and instead treats it as a description of a forest/earthly environment in which Adam lived.
- Concept: Adam’s Paradise
- Function of the verse here: Critique of the tradition
- Textual evidence: «The Qur’an has informed us that human beings appeared on earth and that he was living in forests in hot regions, because verses 118 and 119 in Surat Taha do not describe more than a forest»
- Corresponding traditional reading: Adam’s eschatological Paradise
Related books
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