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 cited
Indeed, those who dispute concerning the signs of God without any authority that has come to them—there is nothing in their breasts except arrogance, which they will never attain.
Brief reading
He associates it with obstinate disputation over God’s signs as a form of arrogance.
Axes
- Linguistic and semantic
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Disputation: 2
- Arrogance: 1
- God’s signs: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It falls within a network that links disputation with psychological self-exaltation.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 277: He makes it a description of obstinate disputation over God’s signs as an expression of arrogance.
- Concept: disputation
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «٢- {إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُجَادِلُونَ فِي آيَاتِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ سُلْطَانٍ أَتَاهُمْ إِنَّ فِي صُدُورِهِمْ إِلَّا كِبْرٌ مَا هُمْ بِبَالِغِيهِ…} (غافر ٥٦).»
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