Citation location: Episode 10: Sustenance and Lifespans: The Book and Laws, Not Individual Determination, at 06:16–06:19. Heard excerpt: “The Hour—no—and what you are promised are two, and in the sky is your sustenance and what you… uh, that is, they are two, two.”

What is meant here

The point is not to establish a final, comprehensive meaning for the phrase “what you are promised,” but to record what the episode summary attributes to Shahrur: that the phrase is not confined to sustenance, and that the coming of the Hour and what is connected with it are an example of what it includes.

What is attributed to Shahrur

The available summary states that Shahrur adds that the phrase “and what you are promised” “does not mean sustenance only, but includes other matters such as the coming of the Hour and what is connected to it.”

This attribution is based on a paraphrase of the episode, not on a verbatim quotation from it.

Atlas explanation

The wording of the summary indicates that the coming of the Hour is mentioned as an example of a meaning not limited to sustenance, rather than as an exhaustive account of everything covered by the phrase. This atom therefore confines itself to denying that the phrase is restricted to sustenance and to affirming the stated example.

Limited conclusion

The available material alone does not establish any further detail about the structure of the verse or a complete list of the referents of “what you are promised.” Nor does it establish any independent technical designation for the phrase outside this context.

Open question and documentation limit

What exact wording did Shahrur use in the episode, and in what context did he present the coming of the Hour? This requires consulting Episode 10 to establish it. At the level of books, this material is connected only to The Book and the Qur’an and The Mother of the Book and its elaboration, without the current evidence being sufficient to identify a specific passage in either book.