Intended meaning
Alignment, adjustment, and straightening are stages in preparing the bodily structure so that it becomes ready for upright standing This is understood to mean degrees in the preparation and construction of the body, not merely a passing description of the final state
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: interpretive
- Argument movement: alignment and adjustment are stages of preparing the body, not static descriptions.
- Key terms: alignment, adjustment, straightening, upright standing.
- Degree of centrality: subsidiary.
It explains Qur’anic expressions as successive constructive stages, linking meaning to movement and development within the body rather than settling for a fixed final description.
Links that help with reading
- Muhammad Shahrur The Qur’anic Stories Vol. 1
- History, development, and the laws
- Adam as a transitional stage in evolutionary humanization
Grounding
- Supporting text: «Alignment, adjustment, and straightening: stages in preparing the bodily structure and upright standing».
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom is based on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of the 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 definitional; it fixes a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.
Related to
Editorial note
An explanatory atom that assists within a broader context about humanization.