This axis gathers 1 place where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
Verse text as cited
Are you going to kill a man just because he says, “My Lord is God”
Brief reading
Cited to highlight the legitimacy of defending a person of differing belief against the oppression of authority.
Axes
- Political and social
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Religious freedom: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is connected to the issue of social protection for freedom of belief.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Places of use
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 129: cited to highlight the legitimacy of defending a person of differing belief against the oppression of authority.
- Concept: religious freedom
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «{ وَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مُؤْمِنٌ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ … أَتَقْتُلُونَ رَجُلًا أَنْ يَقُولَ رَبِّيَ اللَّهُ … } (Ghafir 28).»
Related books
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