The Biological Parent Is Not the Educational Father
Editorial verification status: this atom is extracted from an explanatory audiovisual source, and it is now linked to the nearest books within Shahrur’s project at the book level. For precise academic citation, consult the original book and the original episode together.
Formulation of the claim
Shahrur distinguishes between “the parent” as a biological description and “the father” as an educational and human description.
Explanation
He sees the parent as the one who bears the biological connection: the sperm or the ovum.
The father, however, is the one who raises, nurtures, and performs the human social role.
He cites Qur’anic usages such as “his father Azar” to argue that father does not always equal parent.
In this way, he separates biological lineage from educational lineage.
Its place in the episode’s argument
This idea explains why the text sometimes speaks of the parents and at other times of the father and the mother.
It is part of his linguistic construction for defining inheritance and kinship relations.
Limits of the claim
It does not deny that the two descriptions overlap in many cases, but it rejects complete equivalence between them.
Brief witness
“The parent is a purely biological concept"
"The father is a purely human concept”
Related links
- Shahrur - Father
- Shahrur - The Qur’an
- Atom: Lineage is to the father and mother, not to the parent and the female parent