Fussilat 16

This node gathers 3 instances 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

So We sent against them a screaming wind on days of misfortune

He uses it to interpret “day” as a time or occasion, and to link misfortune to the event itself rather than to abstract time.

It serves his reading of time in narratives as a circumstance of the event, not as a fixed unit of calculation.

The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 2, p. 52: He uses it to interpret “day” as a time or occasion rather than twenty-four hours, and to link misfortune to the event rather than to abstract time.
- Concept: Misfortune
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “So how can He say elsewhere {فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا فِي أَيَّامٍ نَحِسَاتٍ…} (Fussilat 16)?”
The Qur’anic Narrative, vol. 2, p. 52: He uses it to highlight that punishment was tied to specific days/occasions, not to absolute cosmic time.
- Concept: Days of misfortune
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “So how can He say elsewhere {فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا فِي أَيَّامٍ نَحِسَاتٍ…} (Fussilat 16)?”
The State and Society, p. 89: He makes it an example of a kind of external punishment by which the people of ʿAd were destroyed.
- Concept: The screaming wind
- Function of the verse here: Example
- Textual evidence: “… as happened to the people of ʿAd, the people of the Prophet Hud, as in His saying — Exalted is He —: {فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا …}”

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