Intended Meaning
The text holds that parental disobedience is among the prohibited acts, because it clashes with human nature and with the aims of revelation. This prohibition also falls within the restriction of prohibitions to specific matters in order to protect people from religious manipulation.
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: legislative
- Movement of the argument: parental disobedience falls within the circle of prohibitions.
- Key terms: parental disobedience, prohibitions, human nature, aims of revelation.
- Degree of centrality: central.
The atom establishes a moral and legislative ruling that links prohibition to the aims of revelation, and it offers an example of limiting prohibitions to a defined scope that prevents arbitrary expansion in judgment.
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Basis
- Supporting text: «Associating partners with God is the first of the prohibitions and the most severe of them, and its elaboration appears in many texts that affirm worship of God alone and the negation of partners. Parental disobedience and killing children out of fear of poverty are forbidden because they clash with human nature and with the aims of revelation. In his view, limiting prohibitions aims to protect people from religious manipulation and from using prohibition to control their destinies».
Place of the Basis in the Book
- Book: The Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration.
- Location: in the early part of the book
- Type of basis: near witness.
- Verification marker: exclusive divine right
- Reading note: This passage is suitable as support because it confirms the restriction of divine prohibition and rejects manipulation of terms, and it is close to the atom.
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the formulation of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted word for word.
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.
Editorial note
The basis links the ruling to both nature and purpose.