The Definitive Prohibition Is God’s Exclusive Prerogative

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Intended Meaning

The true prohibition belongs to God alone, and neither the jurist nor the council nor parliament has the right to impose a prohibition or permissibility of their own devising. This statement is based on distinguishing between divine legislation and human authority in rulings.

The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas

  • Type of argument: legislative
  • Direction of argument: restricts prohibition to God alone.
  • Key terms: prohibition, God, jurist, parliament.
  • Degree of centrality: primary.

This atom establishes that prohibition is not a human authority, but a purely divine ruling, and thus limits the expansion of the jurist or institution in inventing prohibition.

Basis

  • Supporting text: «True prohibition belongs to God alone; no jurist, council, or parliament has the right to impose a prohibition or permissibility of their own devising».

Location of the basis in the book

  • Book: Islam and Faith.
  • Location: near the beginning of the book, within the discussion of the relationship between religion and authority.
  • Type of basis: close witness.
  • Marker that helps verification: the distinction between Islam and faith
  • Reading note: This passage is suitable because it links prohibition to an exclusive divine right and denies humans any monopoly over it, which is the core of the atom.

Degree of documentation

  • Level: directly documented
  • Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
  • Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted word for word.

Its function in the book

Its function here is declarative; it establishes a result on which what follows in the line of argument depends.

Editorial note

This atom is foundational in criticizing legislative monopoly.

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