This hub 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
If you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say, “Allah.”
Brief reading
He employs it to say that the polytheists acknowledged the Creator, and therefore the Qur’an called them polytheists, not criminals.
Axes
- Faith-related
- Linguistic and semantic
Associated concepts
- Knowledge of the Creator: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It supports the semantic distinction between acknowledging the Creator and describing polytheism.
Role of the verse in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- Islam and Faith, p. 256: He employs it to say that the polytheists acknowledged the Creator, and therefore the Qur’an called them polytheists, not criminals.
- Concept: Knowledge of the Creator
- Function of the verse here: Support
- Textual evidence: “As indicated by God’s saying about the Arab polytheists: {If you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say, ‘Allah’…} (Luqman 25).”
Related books
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