This axis brings together 4 instances of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking them to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as it appears
Then Satan whispered to him; he said, “O Adam, shall I guide you to the tree of immortality and a kingdom that does not decay?”
Brief reading
Shahrur makes the verse an example of tempting the human being through the instinct of survival and attachment to the idea of immortality and non-perishing.
Axes
- Human and ethical
- Faith-based
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- Instinct of survival: 3
- Immortality: 2
- Readings: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the concept of immortality within a psychological and semantic reading of Adam’s experience.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 2
- Support: 2
Instances of use
- The State and Society, p. 175: He uses it to link the first human transition from instinct to consciousness with Satan’s attempt to entice Adam with immortality and non-perishing, making the verse an example of desire arising from the instinct of survival.
- Concept: Instinct of survival
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: “Adam was brought out of the forest, ‘paradise,’ when Satan whispered to him and stirred up in him the instinct of survival, in His saying—Exalted is He—: {فَوْسُوسَ إِلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَانُ …} (Taha 120)”
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 520: He cites it to show that Satan enticed Adam through the instinct of survival by means of immortality and non-perishing.
- Concept: Instinct of survival
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “In His saying, Exalted is He, {هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكٍ لَا يَبْلَى} (Taha 120)”
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 520: He employs it to show that Satan’s tempting of Adam was through what the human being understands as immortality and non-perishing.
- Concept: Immortality
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: “And he enticed him with the instinct of survival in God’s saying: {هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكٍ لَا يَبْلَى}”
- Towards New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 85: He cites it to support Ibn Abbas’s answer in preferring the reading “two kings” and linking it to a Qur’anic contextual clue within the text itself.
- Concept: Readings
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “By virtue of His saying: { هل أذْلُكَ عَلَى شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكِ لا يَبْلَى } (Taha 120).”
- Corresponding traditional reading: the other reading: two kings / two kings
Related books
This page is presented within the general method of building the atlas.