Citation: Qur’anic Stories, vol. 2, p. 49.
Shahrur’s Statement
Shahrur says that livestock “are domesticated herbivorous animals,” and states that describing them as domesticated excludes wild animals, while describing them as herbivores excludes cats, dogs, and animals with claws and fangs, even if they are tame. In explaining the meaning of permissibility, he says: “The slaughter of livestock has been made lawful for you, for eating and benefiting from them.”
What Does the Atom Establish?
The statement establishes that eating is not the only purpose Shahrur gives for slaughtering livestock; he adds “benefiting from them.” The page does not expand this benefit into specific forms, because the available raw text does not provide a documented detailed list of such forms.
Limit of Documentation
The statement attributed to Shahrur concerning warmth, beauty, carrying loads, hides, and wool cannot be quoted here: the citation attached to it is truncated, and its raw context does not contain it. It has therefore been removed from the body of the claim until a complete verbatim citation is added.