Meaning
What is meant here is that some hadiths attributed to the Prophet are understood as negating the role of deeds in determining a person’s fate, or as making fate predetermined in an inevitable manner. The text therefore criticizes them because they weaken human responsibility for one’s actions.
The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas
- Argument type: critical
- Argument movement: It criticizes hadiths understood as negating the effect of deeds on fate.
- Central terms: hadiths, deeds, fate, responsibility.
- Degree of centrality: pivotal.
It confronts a hadith-based reading that weakens human responsibility and makes fate inevitable. In doing so, it defends the place of deeds as a decisive element in reckoning and moral responsibility.
Links That Aid Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism
- Critique of Heritage, Jurisprudence, and Exegesis
Evidence
- Supporting text: “It criticizes hadiths attributed to the Prophet that are understood as negating the role of deeds or as establishing the inevitability of fate in advance.”
Location of the Evidence in the Book
- Book: Drying Up the Sources of Terrorism.
- Location: In the final section of the book, within its treatment of hadiths that negate the role of deeds.
- Type of evidence: close supporting passage.
- Verification aid: negation of the role of deeds.
- Reading note: The passage states that there are hadiths concerned with negating the role of deeds in fate, which supports the atom in its general meaning.
Degree of Documentation
- Level: directly documented.
- Meaning of the level: The atom rests on an explicit passage 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 supporting passage is cited verbatim.
Note to the Reader
The atom presents an interpretive critique of the effect of these hadiths.