This page gathers the main pathways linked to the concept of «prohibition» within the atlas: the shared entry point, the lexicon, the places where it appears in the books, the verses, the relations, and nearby claims.
Direct answer
For Shahrur, prohibition is a divine prerogative that neither the state, the jurist, nor custom possesses. This center therefore distinguishes between what appears as prohibition in revelation and what is a legal ban, a restriction, or a civil regulation open to change.
Concept keys
- Prohibition is confined to God in this reading.
- A prohibition does not always equal a forbiddance.
- The state regulates what is permissible; it does not add religious prohibitions.
- The concept intersects with sovereignty, limits, and civil law.
- The verses here matter because they define the scope of prohibition and prevent its expansion.
Where does the tracing begin?
- prohibition
- Al-A’raf 33
- God alone is distinctively concerned with permissibility and prohibition
- Sovereignty belongs to God, meaning prohibition is confined to revelation and humans may not add new prohibitions
Shared entry point
- The concept appears through the lexicon, verses, relations, and nearby claims below.
Lexicon
Appearance in the books
Related verses
- Al-A’raf 33
- Al-An’am 119
- Al-An’am 138
- Al-An’am 146
- At-Tawbah 29
- Al-‘Ankabut 28
- Al-Ma’idah 3
- An-Nahl 116
- An-Nisa’ 23
Conceptual relations
- Islam is re-founded from 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
- Avoidance does not equal prohibition
- Prohibition requires a new messengerly authority
- Prohibition belongs to messengerly authority, and to the modern state
- The civil state regulates the public sphere through law and citizenship without possessing the authority of prohibition
- The state does not possess prohibition
- The encompassing relations
- God alone is distinctively concerned with permissibility and prohibition
- A prohibition is not the same as prohibition
Nearby claims
- The state does not possess prohibition
- Khamr includes drugs, and avoidance relates to intoxication
- God alone possesses permissibility and prohibition
- Value-based Islam is translated politically and ethically into freedom, citizenship, and resistance to tyranny
- The civil state regulates the public sphere by law, not by religious prohibition
- Definitive prohibition is God’s prerogative
- Some prohibitions are subject to ijtihad
- Shahrur reconfigures religious authority through freedom, the limits of revelation, and ijtihad
- In Shahrur’s view, legislation distinguishes between divine prohibition and human ijtihad
- Multiplying prohibitions narrows religion
- Idols are not prohibited in themselves
- Acts prohibited by human beings
- Human beings regulate only what is permissible
- Prohibition is a purely divine right
- Human legislation does not add prohibitions
- Human legislation is changeable
- Sovereignty belongs to God alone
- Wine and gambling are forbidden, not prohibited
- The sharia closes the door to human prohibition
- Legal prohibition differs from prohibition
- Forbiddances are subject to ijtihad
- A forbiddance is not prohibition
- Divine prohibition is limited, while human law is a variable regulatory domain
- Sovereignty belongs to God, meaning prohibition is confined to revelation and humans may not add new prohibitions
- Wine and gambling are forbidden, not prohibited, because prohibition in revelation is exclusive
- Jurisprudence is historical, and civil law is separate from it
- Qur’anic prohibitions are fixed, while forbiddances are left to human ijtihad
- Religion is a sphere of freedom and values, and the civil state and human ijtihad are the alternative to sovereignty
- Legislation and prohibition are attributes of God alone
- Legislation monopolizes divine prohibition
- The Muhammadan message opens the door to ijtihad