Atoms: The Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration

This index gathers the atoms within the Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration and links them to the index of claims.

Atom Pages

• The verses of elaboration establish the rulings of the message
• The verses of elaboration set out the prohibitions
• The verses of elaboration explain the prohibitions
• The verses of the Mother of the Book explain the prohibitions
• The verse on zina targets public indecency
• The verse on theft means deterrence, not amputation
• Consuming wealth unlawfully includes bribery
• The firming-up and elaboration in Hud differ from the decisive and the ambiguous in Al Imran
• Ijtihad in the elaboration of the decisive verses
• Ijtihad applies to the decisive verses
• Detailed rulings are open to practical ijtihad
• Rulings have both a divine and a human dimension
• Terror means lawful deterrence
• Attention to the moral meaning of texts
• Interpretation froze the movement of knowledge
• Interpretation is specific to the ambiguous
• Interpretation is the cause of disagreement
• Interpretation pertains to the ambiguous verses
• Liberation from inherited jurisprudence
• Prohibition is a purely divine prerogative
• Prohibition in Islam → is limited
• Synonymy is a root cause of the traditional confusion
• Qur’anic legislation requires contextual elaboration
• Contemporary civil legislation
• Legislation changes with changes in society
• Legislation responds to changing reality
• Elaboration rests on a methodological distinction
• Distinguishing between the decisive and elaboration
• The Wise Revelation is a living, interactive text
• Revelation is a stage of knowledge, not merely eloquence
• Traditional rigidity is the reason for marginalization
• Jihad is broader than fighting
• The forbidden is limited to what God has forbidden
• Report is linked to presence and witnessing
• Wine and gambling are prohibited by admonition, not by formal prohibition
• Usury is forbidden because it harms the debtor
• The Muhammadan message is bounded and universal
• The messenger conveys; he does not legislate
• Zakat is a distributive social obligation
• Associating others with God is the first of the prohibitions
• Pre-Islamic poetry is evidence of an earlier linguistic perfection
• Rituals fall within elaboration
• The straight path means a free moral commitment
• Prayer, as a relationship, differs from ritual observance
• Worship is voluntary submission to God
• Punishments are legal limits that can be regulated
• Arabic developed gradually, not by sudden leaps
• Indecency includes both the outward and the inward
• Traditional jurisprudence is not contemporary legislation
• Inherited jurisprudence is not suitable for the present
• Understanding changes according to the problem at hand
• Lawful fighting repels aggression
• Euthanasia differs from suicide
• The contemporary reading dismantles the inherited intermediary
• The Qur’an is structurally reclassified
• Retribution falls under the authority of the civil system
• Qur’anic narratives are for admonition, not legislation
• The Book and the Qur’an are distinct
• The decisive does not admit ijtihad
• The decisive and the ambiguous each have their own elaboration
• The decisive verses do not admit ijtihad
• The recognized and the reprehensible change socially
• A report becomes news through interpretation
• A report pertains to the unseen
• The revelation came down in the Qurayshi dialect
• The text was revealed in the language of Quraysh
• Revelation does not contradict reason or reality
• The Mother of the Book is the foundation of the Muhammadan message
• The Mother of the Book is the decisive verses
• The inherited classification has become inflated
• The elaboration of the decisive is a field of ijtihad
• Gathering the verses to understand the decisive
• Restricting the prohibitions protects against manipulation
• Obedience to the messenger has two forms
• Disobedience to parents is forbidden
• The aim of revelation is to elevate language to knowledge
• Killing children for fear of destitution is forbidden
• Killing children for fear of poverty
• Killing oneself is forbidden except by right
• The Arabic tongue is Qurayshi
• Women’s clothing is a matter of custom
• The Quraysh dialect is closer to eloquence
• An orphan’s property may be approached only in the best manner
• The historical emergence of Qur’anic sciences
• The dominance of the science of exegesis