Intended meaning
The author holds that the Qur’an alone is the Messenger’s miracle, and that it is sufficient to prove the message without the need for any other transmitted or material miracles Accordingly, he makes the Qur’an the criterion of miraculousness and acceptance, not the reports attributed to the Prophet
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: definitional
- Argument movement: miraculousness is confined to the Qur’an alone and made the criterion for accepting the message.
- Key terms: Qur’an, miracle, Messenger, miraculousness.
- Degree of centrality: pivotal.
Establishing the original basis for arguing from the Qur’an as the sufficient sign of the message, while dispelling the need for other transmitted or material evidences.
Reading aids
- Muhammad Shahrur: the Messengerly Sunna and the Prophetic Sunna
- Sunna between messengerhood and prophethood
- The Qur’an
- The Messenger
- The contemporary Sunna is understood through Qur’anic terms, not through inherited sacralization
Grounding
- Supporting text: ««The Qur’an is the only and sufficient miracle»».
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the formulation above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted verbatim.
Its function in the book
Its function here is argumentative; it supports a larger conclusion in the chapter or prepares for it.
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Editorial note
The formulation presents the claim as a general interpretive rule rather than a detailed report.