This axis gathers two 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 it appears
And all that We relate to you from the accounts of the messengers is what We use to strengthen your heart; and there has come to you in this truth, as well as admonition and remembrance for the believers.
Brief reading
At Shahrur’s hands, the verse appears as a statement of the function of narrative: to strengthen the heart and present truth, admonition, and remembrance, not to establish detailed rulings.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Admonition and truth: 2
- Strengthening the heart: 1
- Qur’anic narrative: 1
- News/report: 1
- Prophethood: 1
- General information: 1
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to the concept of narrative as a field of strengthening and remembrance within the methodological structure of reading.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Foundational: 2
Places of use
- Qur’anic Narrative Vol. 1, p. 17: cited to argue that the function of narrative is to strengthen the heart and present truth, admonition, and remembrance, not to establish detailed rulings.
- Concept: admonition and truth
- The verse’s function here: Foundational
- Textual witness: “And when we looked at the saying of God Most High: {And all that We relate to you from the accounts of the messengers … and admonition and remembrance for the believers} (Hud 120), we understood that the divine purpose of the stories of the prophets and messengers is only: indicating truth, admonition, and remembrance”
- Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence, p. 122: used to define news/report as general information that may contain truth or illusion and falls within the domain of prophethood.
- Concept: news/report
- The verse’s function here: Foundational
- Textual witness: ”{ And every soul upon you from the accounts of the messengers what We strengthen with it your heart … } (Hud 121).”
Related books
This page is presented within the general method of atlas construction.