This axis gathers 1 instance of the use of this verse in Muhammad Shahrur’s books, connecting it to the concepts and arguments that appear around it.
The verse text as cited
{And We certainly destroyed the generations before you when they wronged, and their messengers came to them with clear proofs, but they would not believe. Thus do We recompense the criminal people.}
Brief reading
The verse is used to show the destruction of unjust nations after the messengers came with clear proofs.
Axes
- Narrative and historical
- Political and social
Related concepts
- Destruction: 2
Its place in the network of concepts
It places the historical consequence of injustice within the network of Qur’anic narrative.
The verse’s role in the argument
- Support: 1
Instances of use
- State and Society, p. 93: He uses it to show that destruction befell unjust nations after the messengers came with clear proofs.
- Concept: destruction
- Function of the verse here: support
- Textual citation: «{And We certainly destroyed the generations before you when they wronged, and their messengers came to them with clear proofs}»
Related books
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