No Abrogation in the Muhammadan Message

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Intended Meaning

The Muhammadan message, as the final one among the messages, is not based on abrogation within its own text. Shahrur places abrogation outside it, that is, as pertaining to the previous messages or to different historical stages, not to the internal rulings of this message

The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas

  • Type of argument: legislative
  • Movement of the argument: it denies the occurrence of abrogation within the Muhammadan message and leaves it outside it.
  • Key terms: the Muhammadan message, abrogation, rulings.
  • Degree of centrality: pivotal.

It supports a fixed-structure legislative conception within the final message and limits the use of abrogation to nullify or fragment internal rulings.

Basis

  • Supporting text: «The Muhammadan message, as the خاتمة of the messages, is not based on abrogation within its own text».

Location of the basis in the book

  • Book: The Book and the Qur’an.
  • Location: in the middle section of the book within the first branch on abrogation
  • Type of basis: direct evidence.
  • Marker that helps verify it: its complete absence in the Muhammadan message
  • Reading note: the phrase explicitly states the absence of abrogation in the concluding Muhammadan message, and this is the very content of the atom.

Degree of documentation

  • Level: directly documented
  • Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
  • Limits of reading: 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 definitional; it establishes a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.

Editorial note

This atom is directly connected to the chapter on legislation and its limits and needs to be arranged alongside closely related atoms.

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