What Is Meant Here
What is meant in the available witness is the attribution of the description “the enduring miracle” to the Qur’an, together with Shahrur’s statement that the Prophet did not bring material miracles “specified in the revelation.” This meaning must remain within the bounds of the witness’s wording: it speaks of material miracles “specified in the revelation” and does not, in the available text, make a detailed judgment about everything reported outside the revelation.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The witness states: “The Prophet did not know the unseen on his own, did not bring material miracles specified in the revelation, and the Qur’an is the enduring miracle.” The statement attributed to him thus combines the denial that the Prophet knew the unseen in himself, the denial that he brought material miracles specified in the revelation, and the affirmation of the Qur’an as the enduring miracle.
Atlas Explanation
The atlas explains the description “enduring” as the continuity conveyed by the term: the Qur’an is the subject of the claim, not a specific material event. This is a limited explanation of the witness’s wording; it does not equate “the Qur’an” with “the Book” or “the message,” nor does it add another definition of miraculousness without evidence.
For reading in the context of the Book and the terminology: Muhammad Shahrur Islam and Faith، The Book, the Qur’an, and the Mother of the Book، the Qur’an.
A Qualified Inference
The arrangement of the statement can be understood as shifting the locus of proof from the material miracle specified in the revelation to the Qur’an, which the witness calls “enduring.” But this is a qualified synthetic inference, not an independent text explaining all aspects of miraculousness.
Open Question and Documentation Limits
Does Shahrur mean to deny all extraordinary events attributed to the Prophet in the tradition, or is his statement limited to what he considers to be mentioned in the revelation? This witness does not settle the matter. The available location of the evidence is also identified only as “in the middle section of the book,” and no raw context or verifiable page number is available here.