Claim Atoms: The Book and the Qur'an

Function of the Index

This index gathers links to the individual claim-atom pages within The Book and the Qur’an. Each link opens a separate claim-atom page. Collecting the links here serves a navigational function and is not intended to assert the equivalence of their topics or to combine them into a single thesis.

Claim-Atom Pages

• Adam Is a Generic Name, Not a Personal Name
• Ijtihad Between the Two Limits
• Legal Rulings Have Limits
• Despotism Exploited Abrogation and Fighting
• Islam Is Valid for Every Age
• Islam Does Not Fundamentally Prohibit the Arts
• The Gentile Is Neither Jewish Nor Christian
• Livestock and Agriculture Contributed to Settlement
• Resurrection Is a Cosmic Transition, Not a Return
• Eternity Belongs to God, Not to Time
• Interpretation Is a Transition to Truth or Law
• Interpretation Is Relative and Historical
• Interpretation Aligns Report with Reason and Reality
• Heritage Is Human Understanding
• Legislation Should Take Changing Reality into Account
• Previous Legislations Were Temporary
• [[sources/كتب/محمد-شحرور-الكتاب-والقران/claims/atoms/التمييز بين الإنزال والتنزيل|Distinguishing inzāl from tanzīl]]
• Distinguishing Law from Choice
• Distinguishing Disbelief from Associating Partners
• Distinguishing Prophethood from Messengerhood
• [[sources/كتب/محمد-شحرور-الكتاب-والقران/claims/atoms/التنزيل انتقال مادي موضوعي|Tanzīl Is an Objective Material Transition]]
• Dialectic Is a General Law in the Universe
• Dialectic Is a Law Based on Opposites
• Beauty Is a Stage Subsequent to Function
• Beauty Develops with Knowledge and History
• Paradise and Hell Do Not Yet Exist
• The Upper Limit and the Lower Limit
• Limits Are the Basis of the Sharia
• Limits Are the Basis of Legislation
• Freedom Is Movement Between Negation and Affirmation
• Dreams Are Disconnected Images
• Hanifism Is Movement Within Limits
• Conflating Power and Will Produces Illusions
• Duration Within Time Is Discontinuous and Continuous
• Messengerhood Is the Domain of Rulings and Conduct
• The Spirit Is the Secret of Humanization
• The Seven Oft-Repeated Verses Belong to Prophethood
• Dwelling Developed from Function to Architecture
• Hearing, Sight, and the Fuʾād Are Primary Sources of Knowledge
• The Year Is a Relative Measure of Time
• Making Is the Product of Cognitive Work
• Rituals Are Symbolic Relations
• Poetry and Literature Are the Highest Arts
• Desires Are Part of Human Development
• Desires Are Not Instincts
• Desires Are Historically and Cognitively Acquired
• Satan Has Two Distinct Usages
• Satan Transforms Truth into Illusion
• In Qur’anic Usage, the Year Is Linked to Events
• The Merciful Intellect Perceives Reality and Its Laws
• The Satanic Intellect Produces Illusion and Myth
• Knowledge Increases Human Capacity
• The General Act and the Specific Deed
• Instincts Are Unconscious and Physiological
• The Fuʾād Is an Initial Stage of Sensory Perception
• Qur’anic Terms Are Keys to Understanding
• Indecencies Have Multiple Types
• Qadar Is Existence Outside Awareness
• Qadar Is Objective Existence
• The Limit-Based Reading of Legislation
• The Qur’an Is Truth, Clear Signs, and Discourse
• The Qur’an Is the Laws of Objective Existence
• The Qur’an Is Not Heritage
• The Qur’an Is Muhammad’s Everlasting Miracle
• The Qur’an Combines the Scientific and the Literary
• Retaliation Addresses Collective Killing
• Qur’anic Narratives Are for Admonition, Not Legislation
• Qur’anic Narratives Are Understood Historically and Methodologically
• Muhammadan Narratives Are for Moral Lessons, Not Legislation
• Judgment Is a Conscious Human Act
• The Heart Is the Center of Rational Understanding
• Speech Must Be Based on Justice
• The Book Is a Set of Objective Conditions
• Disbelief Is a Changing Contextual Concept
• Will Has Two Aspects
• Human Knowledge Is Relative and Developing
• Knowledge Resolves the Confusion Between Truth and Falsehood
• Miracles Before Muhammad Were Temporal Leaps
• The Historical Method in Understanding the Text
• A Momentous Report Differs from Ordinary News
• Prophethood Is the Domain of Objective Truths
• Abrogation Occurred in Previous Messages
• Abrogation Occurs Between Messages
• Pure Revelation Comes Without Sensory Mediators
• Revelation Requires an Abstract Language
• Commandments Are a General Ethical Framework
• The Seventh Commandment Regulates Sale and Production
• The Commandment Concerning Parents Decides in Favor of Development
• Function Precedes Beauty in Architecture
• Time Is the Linking of Duration to an Event
• The Mother of the Book Is Commands for Human Conduct
• The Mother of the Book Is a General Cosmic Source
• The Mother of the Book Is Legislation
• The Development of Knowledge from Sense Perception to Mathematics
• Teaching the Names Is Teaching Distinctive Characteristics
• Distinguishing Narratives from Rulings Resolves the Problem
• Distinguishing the Domains of Legislation, Commandments, and Rituals
• The Project’s Conclusion Defines Its Major Themes
• Validity of Reasoning Is Not Sufficient for Truth
• The Truth of Premises Is a Condition for a True Judgment
• Non-Contradiction Is the Basis of Abstract Thinking
• The Science of Abrogating and Abrogated Verses Is an Illusion
• The Law of Pairing Explains Mutual Influence
• The Law of Internal Conflict Explains Development and Destruction
• Killing Children Because of Poverty Is Prohibited
• Taking a Life May Only Be Done Rightfully
• There Is No Abrogation in the Muhammadan Message
• The Night of Decree Is the Season of the Qur’an’s Proclamation
• The Qur’an Is Guidance for Humankind, and the Book Is Guidance for the God-Conscious
• The Truth of the Book Is Not the Entire Book
• Reading Is Explanation, Not Recitation
• The People of the Remembrance Are Those Proficient in the Arabic Language
• the Remembrance Is a Modern Arabic Formulation of the Book

Reading Path

To consider the claim atoms within the structure of the Book’s general claims, see the claims index. To return to the source itself, see The Book and the Qur’an.