Function of the Index
This index gathers the book’s claim-atom pages, keeping each atom within the scope of its claim and evidence. For the book’s overall structure, see The Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration and Claims Index.
The available atlas materials describe a framework in which the definitive verses concerning prohibitions are attributed to the «Mother of the Book», while the verses of elaboration provide explanation and clarification. The following pages distinguish the related claims: Verses of the Mother of the Book explain the prohibitions, Verses of elaboration clarify the prohibitions, Verses of elaboration explain the prohibitions.
Claim-Atom Pages
- Verses of elaboration establish the rulings of the message
- Verses of elaboration clarify the prohibitions
- Verses of elaboration explain the prohibitions
- Verses of the Mother of the Book explain the prohibitions
- The verse on zina targets manifest indecency
- The theft verse means deterrence, not amputation
- Wrongfully consuming property includes bribery
- Making definitive and elaborating in Hud differ from the definitive and the ambiguous in Al Imran
- Independent reasoning in elaborating the definitive verses
- Independent reasoning concerns the definitive verses
- Detailed rulings are open to practical independent reasoning
- Rulings have divine and human dimensions
- Terrorizing means legitimate deterrence
- Attention to the semantic aspect of texts
- Interpretation froze intellectual development
- Interpretation is specific to the ambiguous
- Interpretation is the cause of disagreement
- Interpretation pertains specifically to the ambiguous verses
- Liberation from inherited jurisprudence
- Prohibition is an exclusively divine prerogative
- Prohibition in Islam → is restricted
- Synonymy is at the root of inherited confusion
- Qur’anic legislation requires contextual elaboration
- Contemporary civil legislation
- Legislation changes as society changes
- Legislation responds to changing reality
- Elaboration rests on a methodological distinction
- The distinction between the definitive and elaboration
- The Wise Revelation is a living, interactive text
- The Revelation developed knowledge, not eloquence alone
- Inherited stagnation is a cause of marginalization
- Jihad is broader than fighting
- What is forbidden is limited to what God has prohibited
- Report is connected to presence and witnessing
- Wine and gambling are a prohibition, not a ban
- Usury is prohibited because it harms the debtor
- The Muhammadan message is limit-based and universal
- The Messenger conveys; he does not legislate
- Zakat is a distributive social obligation
- Associating partners with God is the first of the prohibitions
- Pre-Islamic poetry attests to an earlier linguistic maturity
- Rituals fall under elaboration
- The straight path means free moral commitment
- Prayer as a relationship differs from ritual
- Worship is voluntary submission to God
- Penalties are legal limits open to regulation
- Arabic developed gradually, not by sudden leap
- Indecency includes what is outward and inward
- Inherited jurisprudence is not contemporary legislation
- Inherited jurisprudence is not suitable for the present
- Understanding changes according to the problem
- Legitimate fighting repels aggression
- Euthanasia differs from suicide
- The contemporary reading dismantles inherited mediation
- The Qur’an is structurally reclassified
- Retaliation falls within the jurisdiction of the civil order
- Qur’anic narratives are for instruction, not legislation
- The Book and the Qur’an are distinct
- The definitive does not admit independent reasoning
- The definitive and the ambiguous each have their elaboration
- The definitive verses do not admit independent reasoning
- What is recognized as good and what is condemned change socially
- A tiding becomes a report through interpretation
- Tiding concerns the unseen
- The revelation came down in the dialect of Quraysh
- The text was revealed in the tongue of Quraysh
- Revelation does not contradict reason and reality
- The Mother of the Book is the foundation of the Muhammadan message
- The Mother of the Book is the definitive verses
- The proliferation of inherited classification
- Elaborating the definitive is the domain of independent reasoning
- Gathering verses to understand the definitive
- Restricting prohibitions protects against manipulation
- Obedience to the Messenger has two forms
- Disobedience toward one’s parents is prohibited
- The purpose of revelation is to elevate language to science
- Killing children for fear of destitution is prohibited
- Killing children for fear of poverty
- Taking a life is prohibited except by right
- The Qurayshi character of the Arabic tongue
- Women’s clothing is a matter of social convention
- The dialect of Quraysh is closer to eloquence
- The orphan’s property may be approached only in the best manner
- The historical emergence of the Qur’anic sciences
- The dominance of the science of exegesis