The author understands the prescribed as specification, clarification, and the removal of hardship, not merely as abstract obligation. Thus, for him, the prescribed becomes a way of fixing measures and limits more than a title for religious pressure or coercion.
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- Terrorism is the product of a rigid historical reading
- The prescribed indicates specification and clarification
- The Book, the definitive, and the prescribed define the structure of revelation
- The structure of revelation and disciplined historical interpretation prevent the transformation of religion into violence