The concept of “Islam” appears here as a human ethical horizon broader than narrow affiliation, and prior to the specificity of Muhammadan faith. These pathways connect it to righteous action, freedom, citizenship, and the separation of religion from the authority of prohibition.
Direct answer
Islam, in Shahrur’s view, is not the name of a narrow affiliation, but a broad human ethical horizon wider than the specific faith of the Muhammadan message. In this page, it appears linked to righteous action, freedom, citizenship, and the separation of religion from the authority of prohibition. This is why this center brings together linguistic definition, books, verses, and the relationships that clarify the breadth of the concept.
Concept keys
- Islam is broader than specific faith.
- It is connected to righteous action and human values.
- It appears before the Muhammadan mission in a number of forms.
- It is linked to freedom, citizenship, and criticism of the authority of prohibition.
- Its forms vary across relationships and are read within an inclusive family.
Where does the trace begin?
- Islam
- Islam
- Islam is presented as a general human horizon that is prior to and broader than the specific faith associated with following Muhammad and his rites
Shared entry
Lexicon
Its appearance in the books
Related verses
- Āl ʿImrān 64
- Āl ʿImrān 85
- Al-Anbiyāʾ 108
- Al-Anʿām 161-163
- Al-Anʿām 162-163
- Al-Anʿām 163
- Al-Baqarah 112
- Al-Baqarah 128
- Al-Qaṣaṣ 51-54
- Al-Qalam 35-36
- Al-Māʾidah 93
- Fuṣṣilat 33
- Yūnus 71-72
Conceptual relations
- Ihsan includes work, the economy, society, and nature
- Islam is valid for every time and place
- Islam transcends narrow religious affiliation
- Islam predates the Muhammadan mission as a general human relationship with God, distinct from the specific faith of Muhammadan following
- Islam predates the Muhammadan mission
- Islam constitutes a human ethical framework broader than the faith associated with following Muhammad and his rites
- Islam is re-founded through the Qur’an as a human ethical framework that distinguishes between Islam and faith, separates religion from the authority of prohibition, and makes freedom, citizenship, and righteous action central criteria
- Islam is presented as a general human horizon that is prior to and broader than the specific faith associated with following Muhammad and his rites
- Adoption is legitimate in specific cases
- The civil state organizes the public sphere through law and citizenship without possessing the authority of prohibition
- The state does not possess the authority of prohibition
- Sin differs from wrongdoing, transgression, and error
- Shirk means fixing what is changeable
- Inclusive relations
- Righteous action embodies faith
- The Qur’an distinguishes between الأب and الوالد, الأم and الوالدة, and الأبوين and الوالدين
- God alone is uniquely entitled to permit and prohibit
- Citizenship is based on respect for the law and equality among citizens
- Transnational allegiance is based on the individual relationship between the human being and their Lord
- National allegiance preserves the mother tongue and identity
Nearby claims
- Qur’anic terms are not synonymous
- Ihsan includes the self and others
- Islam is a universal religion of values
- Islam predates the Muhammadan mission
- Islam is allegiance to human values
- Islam transcends narrow affiliation
- Starting from the founding text
- Tartil is the principal method of reading
- Tartil brings together closely related topics
- Freedom is the basis of human dignity
- Good deeds erase misdeeds through repentance
- The state does not possess the authority of prohibition
- Religion guides toward human values
- Sin, wrongdoing, and transgression
- Sins against God are forgivable
- Misdeeds are expiated by reform
- Shirk is the fixing of what is mutable
- Shirk is unforgivable when persisted in
- Testimony in the Qur’an has two meanings
- There are two different kinds of combat doctrine
- Righteous action embodies faith
- The Qur’an interprets the Qur’an
- The Book defines the fixed foundations
- Kufr is a public hostile declaration
- God alone possesses the power to permit and prohibit
- Citizenship is the highest allegiance in the civil state
- Citizenship is based on law and equality
- Citizenship is allegiance to the homeland and the law
- Transnational allegiance is an individual religious allegiance
- National allegiance preserves identity