Citation location: Episode 09: Sending Down and Revelation and Their Effect on Divine Decree and Predestination, at 12:55–12:55. Audible excerpt: “The dhikr is the audio form of the Book.”
What is meant here?
Within the limits of the available summary, what is meant is that the dhikr is presented as the spoken audio form of the Book. This summary alone does not establish anything beyond this concise formulation.
What is attributed to Shahrur
The summary of the ninth episode reports that Shahrur defines the dhikr as the spoken audio form of the Book.
The available material is an editorial paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation from Shahrur or a transcript of the episode.
Atlas explanation
The page records this as a claim about the relationship of the dhikr to the Book, without equating the two terms. Nor does the page make the dhikr synonymous with the Qur’an, since the evidence presented here does not provide sufficiently documented clarification of the nature of the difference between them.
For related context on the books: The Book and the Qur’an and The Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration.
Conclusion
In a limited sense, the claim can be understood as drawing attention to a dimension of utterance or audio formulation in the use of the term dhikr. However, this is a low-confidence synthetic inference and does not establish that the dhikr is limited to sound or separate from meaning.
Open question
What is the exact wording in the episode on which this summary was based? Does the episode explain the difference between the dhikr, the Book, and the Qur’an, or the precise meaning of the phrase “audio form”? The available evidence does not settle this. Episode Nine must be reviewed and a verbatim excerpt established.