What is meant
Shahrur sees that livestock in the Qur’anic text are not for meat only, but also include domesticated grazing animals and that benefiting from them extends to warmth, beauty, carrying loads, hides, and wool, that is, to multiple livelihood benefits that fall within the meaning of a blessing
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: definitional
- Argument movement: expands the meaning of livestock to include multiple livelihood benefits, not meat alone.
- Key terms: livestock, benefits, meat, blessing.
- Degree of centrality: pivotal.
This determines the meaning of livestock in Shahrur’s view as broader than food consumption, linking it to the benefits of daily life and easing its confinement to meat alone.
Links that help with reading
- Muhammad Shahrur, Qur’anic Stories, vol. 2
- History, Evolution, and Sunan
- Livestock
- Qur’anic Stories: Reports for Reflection
Basis
- Supporting text: “Shahrur defines «livestock» as domesticated grazing animals, and makes benefiting from them broader than meat, to include warmth, beauty, carrying loads, hides, and wool.”
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the wording above is an analytical summary, and is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is declarative; it establishes a conclusion on which what follows in the argument depends.
Related to
Editorial note
It is preferable to link it to the woman-family-clothing topic from the angle of what is not appropriate; and the closer fit here is History-Evolution-and-Sunan, or legislation-limits-prohibition depending on the context.