This locus gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in the books of Muhammad Shahrur, linking it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
And a witness from among her people testified: If his shirt is torn from the front, then she is telling the truth and he is among the liars
Brief reading
In Shahrur’s view, the verse establishes the idea that the witness is the one who knows the report through indicia and experience, not through direct presence.
Loci
- Methodological
- Linguistic and semantic
Related concepts
- The witness: 2
Its place in the conceptual network
It constructs a methodological definition of the witness’s place in inference.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Establishing: 1
Usage instances
- Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism, p. 295: He uses it to state that the witness is the one who knew of the report without being present, then inferred it through indicia and experience.
- Concept: the witness
- Function of the verse here: Establishing
- Textual witness: «And his example is His, the Exalted, saying: {And a witness from among her people testified …} (Yusuf 26).»
Related books
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