What is meant
Evidence is the lesson or result drawn from stories, in a way that achieves a transition to the better It is not a passing admonition, but a practical conclusion taken from the Qur’anic stories Therefore, it is understood as a transition to the better, not as a legal ruling
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: methodological
- Movement of the argument: makes evidence a practical transition to the better.
- Key terms: evidence, stories, the better.
- Degree of centrality: central.
This clarifies that the purpose of stories is not entertainment or narration, but extracting a cognitive and practical result that helps the reader go beyond reality to what is better.
Links for reading
- Muhammad Shahrur al-Qisas al-Qur’ani vol. 1
- the contemporary reading method
- evidence
- The Qur’anic stories reveal the laws of history, not legal rulings
Basis
- Supporting text: «Evidence: the lesson or result drawn from stories, in a way that achieves a transition to the better».
Location of the basis in the book
- Book: al-Qisas al-Qur’ani vol. 1.
- Location: in the middle section of the book
- Type of basis: close evidence.
- Marker to help verification: transition to the better
- Reading note: this location is suitable as support because it defines evidence as a transition to the better, which is close to what is meant in the atom.
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 is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is definitional; it fixes a meaning or conceptual distinction that Shahrur relies on in building the idea.
Related to
Editorial note
This atom fixes the meaning of evidence through its function.