What Does the Term Mean Here?
Becoming is what being arrives at through process: that is, the outcome or final/developmental transformation. The focus of the definition is becoming’s position as an outcome, not merely as a general label for movement.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The text gives a direct definition: “Becoming: the outcome or final/developmental transformation that being arrives at through process.”
Atlas Explanation
The definition distinguishes the terms by their function within it: being is that which is said to arrive at an end; process is the path through which this arrival occurs; and becoming is the stated outcome. This does not mean that this page substitutes one term for another or gives them broader definitions than the witness provides.
Qualified Inference
Describing the transformation as “final/developmental” allows becoming to be understood as the result of a course, rather than every incidental change. But this is an inference from the qualification in the definition, not an additional independent statement in the witness.
Open Question and Limits of the Evidence
The witness alone does not explain how Shahrur defines being and process in detail, nor does it clarify the application of this triad elsewhere in the book. The quotation’s text has also been verified in the evidence record, but its location is unavailable in the supplied raw text; therefore, no page number is attributed to it.
For conceptual context, see: Existence Is Understood Only Through the Interdependence of Being, Process, and Becoming, becoming, and History, Development, and Sunnas.
Source
Muhammad Shahrur Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence.
Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence · Existence Is Understood Only Through the Interdependence of Being, Process, and Becoming