What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The recorded witness states: «He links fitrah to human values and natural reason, and makes them the basis of sound judgment.» The claim established here is this connection between fitrah on the one hand, and human values, natural reason, and sound judgment on the other.
Atlas Explanation
The page records a conceptual relationship rather than a complete definition: in this witness, fitrah does not appear in isolation, but in conjunction with human values and natural reason, and is assigned the position of the “basis of sound judgment.” This does not require merging these terms or treating them as synonyms.
Limited Inference
The statement can be read as an argumentative arrangement: sound judgment rests here on a basis connected to fitrah. The details and limits of this basis, however, do not appear in the witness itself.
Open Question and Documentation Limits
How are fitrah, natural reason, and human values defined elsewhere in the book? And how does Shahrur explain the movement of this relationship from fitrah to sound judgment? This witness does not settle these questions. Moreover, no raw context has been retrieved for the recorded direct quotation in the material available here, so its location must be verified before expanding the claim.
Links That Help with Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur, Religion and Authority
- Freedom, the Human Being, and Responsibility
- Islamic religion accords with fitrah and freedom as the basis of the human being
Religion and Authority · Islamic religion accords with fitrah and freedom as the basis of the human being