What is meant
Shahrur distinguishes between passing work and making For him, making is the product of compound, learned work; it requires knowledge and experience, and leads to the production of a specific thing Thus industry is linked to knowledge and to human capacity to transform his understanding of nature into production
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: definitional
- Movement of the argument: it defines making as productive cognitive work.
- Central terms: making, industry, work, knowledge, experience.
- Degree of centrality: secondary.
The atom adds a semantic distinction within the network of work, act, and industry, and links human action to practical knowledge.
Links that help with reading
- The Book and the Qur’an
- Knowledge Increases Human Capacity
- General Work and Specific Act
- Existence, Knowledge, and History
Basis
- Supporting text: “Industry requires knowledge and experience.”
Basis location in the book
- Book: The Book and the Qur’an.
- Location: within the discussion of the terms work, act, and making in the context of language and knowledge.
- Type of basis: close evidence.
- Marker that helps verification: making, industry, knowledge and experience.
- Reading note: the location is suitable because it explains making in terms of producing a specific thing that requires knowledge and experience.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on a clear 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 textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is linguistic-cognitive; it shows how terms are used to describe different layers of human action.
Editorial note
This atom is not about modern industry only, but about the meaning of making as a productive act grounded in knowledge.