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.
The verse text as it appears
And the one who believed said: O my people, I fear for you the like of the Day of the Confederates, like the custom of the people of Noah, and ʿAd, and Thamud, and those after them
Brief reading
He employs it to link Thamud to the history of the vanished peoples within a single chain of historical destinies.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Succession of peoples: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into the construction of a historical reading of the succession of nations and their consequences.
The role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 2, p. 59: He employs it to link Thamud to the history of the vanished peoples within a single chain of historical destinies.
- Concept: Succession of peoples
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: «as indicated by His saying تعالى on the tongue of the believer from the family of Pharaoh {…“like the custom of the people of Noah, ʿAd, and Thamud…”} (Ghafir 30–31).»
Related books
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