This axis gathers 1 place of 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
And We certainly sent messengers before you; among them are those We have related to you, and among them are those We have not related to you. And it was not for any messenger to bring a sign except by God’s permission
Brief reading
Through it, he establishes a distinction between abrogation within a single message and abrogation between earlier and later messages.
Axes
- Methodological
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Abrogation between messages: 2
- Previous messages: 1
- Abrogation within the message: 1
Its position in the network of concepts
It forms a methodological point of control for understanding the development of messages.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishment: 1
Places of use
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 382: The verse is cited to show that there were earlier messages that were entirely annulled and others whose traces remained and developed, thereby establishing a distinction between abrogation within a single message and abrogation between messages.
- Concept: Abrogation between messages
- Function of the verse here: Establishment
- Textual evidence: «This falls within laws of a highly specific nature … and the saying of God applies to it: {And We certainly sent messengers …} (Ghafir 78). The verse speaks of messages and laws that came before Muhammad»
Related books
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