Intended meaning
The text denies that any human being has the right to monopolize prohibition or legislation in God’s name. Permissibility and prohibition are among God’s attributes alone, and they may not be ascribed to anyone else in this way.
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: critical
- Direction of argument: It criticizes attributing prohibition to human beings when it is presented as a divine right.
- Key terms: divine prohibition, monopolization, in God’s name.
- Degree of centrality: secondary.
It supports an objection to turning human understanding into absolute authority, and returns prohibition to its divine domain, thereby limiting the tyranny of interpretation in religion’s name.
Links that help with reading
- Muhammad Shahrur Qur’an in Contemporary Thought
- Legislation, Limits, and Prohibition
- Inherited jurisprudence is a human historical construct that does not possess authority equal to the Qur’an
Basis
- Supporting text: «No one may monopolize the right to prohibition or legislation in God’s name; permissibility and prohibition are attributes of God alone».
Location of the basis in the book
- Book: The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought.
- Location: in the first section of the book
- Type of basis: near evidence.
- Verifying marker: exclusive divine right
- Reading note: This location is suitable as support because it states that prohibition is an exclusive divine right, and it is very close to the atom’s content.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Reading limits: the wording above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is declarative; it establishes a result on which what follows in the argument depends.
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Editorial note
This atom functions as an affirmation of the principle of not usurping legal judgment.