This axis brings together 1 locus of use for this verse in the books of Muhammad Shahrur, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse as quoted
WHO MADE FOR YOU FROM THE GREEN TREE FIRE, AND THEN FROM IT YOU LIGHT [your fires]
Brief reading
Shahrur takes it as an example of human knowledge of igniting fire through natural experience before friction.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Methodological
Related concepts
- Fire: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It is linked to a historical account of human knowledge of things.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Example: 1
Instances of use
- The Qur’anic Story, vol. 2, p. 11: He treats it as evidence that human beings learned to kindle fire from forest fires before friction-based ignition.
- Concept: fire
- Function of the verse here: example
- Textual citation: «{الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمْ مِنَ الشَّجَرِ الْأَخْضَرِ نَارًا فَإِذَا أَنْتُمْ مِنْهُ تُوقِدُونَ} (يس ٨٠)»
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