Intended Meaning
What is meant here is that some hadiths attributed to the Prophet are understood as nullifying the role of deeds in determining a person’s fate, or as making fate predetermined in an absolute, deterministic manner. For that reason, the text criticizes them because they weaken human responsibility for one’s actions.
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Type of argument: Critical
- Argument movement: It critiques hadiths that are understood as nullifying the effect of deeds on fate.
- Central terms: hadiths, deeds, fate, responsibility.
- Degree of centrality: Central.
It confronts a hadith-based reading that weakens human responsibility and makes fate inevitable. In this way, it defends the presence of deeds as a decisive element in reckoning and moral responsibility.
Links That Help with Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur, Drying Up the Springs of Terrorism
- Critique of Heritage, Jurisprudence, and Exegesis
Basis
- Supporting text: «It criticizes hadiths attributed to the Prophet that are understood as cancelling the role of deeds or as asserting the predetermination of fate in advance».
Basis Location in the Book
- Book: Drying Up the Springs of Terrorism.
- Location: In the final section of the book, within the discussion of the hadiths that nullify the role of deeds.
- Type of basis: Near evidence.
- Verification marker: Nullification of the role of deeds
- Reading note: The passage explicitly states that there are hadiths revolving around nullifying the role of deeds in fate, which supports the atom in terms of its general meaning.
Degree of Documentation
- Level: Directly documented
- Meaning of the level: The atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: The wording above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is reproduced textually.
Editorial Note
The atom presents an interpretive critique of the effect of these hadiths.