This axis brings together 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 only there had been, among the generations before you, those endowed with a remnant [of righteousness] who would forbid corruption on earth, except a few of those whom We saved from among them; but the wrongdoers pursued the luxuries they had been given, and they were criminals.
Brief reading
Shahrur links it to following the affluent and the spread of corruption, and makes the absence of those who forbid corruption a contributing cause of destruction.
Axes
- Political and social
- Human and ethical
Related concepts
- Corruption on earth: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It enters into the network linking social power and general corruption.
Its role in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 113: He uses it to connect following the affluent with general corruption, and to show that the absence of those who forbid corruption prepares the way for destruction.
- Concept: corruption on earth
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual evidence: «as is made clear by verse 116 of Hud in His saying: {If only there had been, among the generations before you … and they were criminals}.»
Related books
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