This page is an analytical map of the episode, not a verbatim transcript. The internal archive contains the transcript and audio for verification and analysis only, and the atlas does not publish them.
The Episode’s Position within the Program
- Phase: Family, marriage, and lineage
- Function of the episode: To present the weighty covenant, divorce, and the accumulation of family legislation as a dialogical entry point linking the concept to the books and the atoms.
- Number of related atoms currently: 12
Source Data
- Original title in the archive: Program al-Naba’ al-ʿAẓīm with Yahya al-Amir and his guest Dr. Muhammad Shahrur, Episode 28 “The Weighty Covenant and Divorce”
- Internal transcript: Available, not published.
- Internal audio: Available, not published.
- YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngxh3U6pkuE
Related Concepts
Connections to Books
Extracted Atoms
- al-baʿl is not the same as husband in Qur’anic usage
- Divorce does not occur all at once, but through stages
- Divorce is only twice in the Qur’anic path
- The waiting period after the first divorce is linked to the possibility of return and pregnancy
- Legal custom and testimony are necessary to regulate lineage and personal status
- The contract regulates the state, while the covenant regulates the marital relationship
- Society and law can restrict polygyny without rendering it religiously prohibited
- Woman has the right to request divorce in the Muhammadan message
- The weighty covenant is not merely a contract
- The four-month period is a mandatory stage before divorce
- In the Muhammadan message, divorce became a right owned first by the man
- The man has a degree only in the context of pregnancy and return
Verification Notes
- The episode is used as a popular explanatory medium, not as a foundational scriptural text.
- When quoting or conducting academic research, one should refer to the original episode and the related books.
- The concept and book links here are a first layer that can be reviewed more precisely later.