Intended Meaning
Shahrur holds that disobedience to parents has no fixed legal penalty.
Intended Meaning
Shahrur sees honoring one’s parents as an innate value, and holds that parental disobedience does not entail a ḥadd punishment in the final message. What corresponds to it here is repentance and forgiveness, not a fixed punitive penalty.
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: legislative
- Movement of the argument: parental disobedience has no fixed ḥadd, and it is addressed through repentance and forgiveness.
- Key terms: honoring parents, parental disobedience, ḥadd, repentance, forgiveness.
- Degree of centrality: subsidiary.
The atom establishes that this topic is not managed by the logic of fixed punishment, but by the logic of ethics and repentance. In doing so, it distinguishes between the value of filial piety and the appropriate punitive instrument for it.
Links to Aid Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur: Religion and Authority
- Legislation, Limits, and Prohibition
- Filial piety is an innate value, and the punishment for it is subject to the legal limits
Basis
- Supporting text: “Filial piety toward parents is an innate value, and their disobedience does not entail a ḥadd in the final message; rather, repentance and forgiveness.”
Location of the Basis in the Book
- Book: Religion and Authority.
- Location: in the first section of the book
- Type of basis: close witness.
- Mark to aid verification: filial piety toward parents is a value rooted in human nature
- Reading note: this passage is suitable as a basis because it establishes filial piety as an innate value and presents disobedience as a state that departs from human nature.
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the formulation of the claim.
- Reading limits: the wording above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted textually.
Its Function in the Book
Its function here is declarative; it establishes a result on which what follows in the course of the argument depends.
Related To
Editorial Note
The aim is to limit the expansion of fixed punishment here.