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