This axis brings together 2 places where this verse is used in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
Has it not sufficed regarding your Lord that He is Witness over all things?
Brief reading
He uses it to affirm the universality of God’s testimony, and to make it an example of the text matching reality as knowledge advances.
Axes
- Faith-based
- Methodological
Related concepts
- God’s testimony: 2
- Direct interpretation: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It is linked to his idea that the text can be understood directly once the data become clear.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishment: 2
Places of use
- Islam and Human Beings: He uses it to affirm that God’s testimony is comprehensive, all-encompassing, and does not require physical presence.
- Concept: God’s testimony
- Function of the verse here: Establishment
- Textual evidence: «- { … Has it not sufficed regarding your Lord that He is Witness over all things? } (Fussilat 53),»
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 164: He makes it an example of the text matching sensory reality when knowledge advances.
- Concept: Direct interpretation
- Function of the verse here: Establishment
- Textual evidence: «And this is what is called direct interpretation “that is, the correspondence of what is perceived from the sensory world with the text”: {We will show them Our signs…}»
Related books
This page is presented within the general method of building the atlas.