This axis gathers 1 locus for 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
What is the matter with you that you do not hope for due reverence to God? * While He has created you in stages
Brief reading
Shahrur cites it to argue that the creation of the human being passed through gradual stages, not through an immediate direct creation.
Axes
- Methodological
- Narrative and historical
Related concepts
- Stages: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It establishes a reading of stages as a gradual process in creation.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 1
Uses
- The Book and the Qur’an, p. 197: It is cited as evidence that human beings themselves were created through gradual evolutionary stages, not all at once.
- Concept: Stages
- Function of the verse here: Establishing
- Textual evidence: «And thus too we understand His saying تعالى: {What is the matter with you that you do not hope for due reverence to God? * While He has created you in stages} (Noah 13-14).»
Related books
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