Intended meaning
Prohibition here is confined to what the divine text has brought; neither the jurist nor the mufti has the right to add prohibitions of their own What is forbidden religiously is not a field for personal interpretation or for extending beyond what the text has established
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: legislative
- Argument movement: it restricts prohibitions to what has been established by the text and prevents adding to them through personal interpretation.
- Key terms: prohibition, text, jurist, mufti.
- Degree of centrality: primary.
It establishes a rule for regulating prohibitions and prevents expanding the scope of prohibition beyond what the text establishes, thereby limiting uncontrolled juristic expansion.
Links that help with reading
- [[sources/كتب/محمد-شحرور-ام-الكتاب-وتفصيلها|Muhammad Shahrur, Umm al-Kitab and Its Elaboration]]
- Legislation, Limits, and Prohibition
- The confined divine prohibition negates the messenger’s legislative independence
Grounding
- Supporting text: “The prohibitions are fixed by the text, and the jurist or mufti has no right to add prohibitions of his own.”
Location of the grounding in the book
- Book: [[sources/كتب/محمد-شحرور-ام-الكتاب-وتفصيلها|Umm al-Kitab and Its Elaboration]].
- Location: in the final section, within his critique of attributing falsehoods to God in matters of prohibition.
- Type of grounding: close witness.
- Marker for verification: adding one or more prohibitions
- Reading note: this location is suitable as evidence because it explicitly states that adding to or subtracting from prohibitions by jurists counts as attributing falsehoods to God.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on a direct witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Reading limits: the wording above is an analytical summary and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is transmitted word for word.
Its function in the book
Its function here is argumentative; it supports a larger conclusion in the chapter or prepares for it.
Related to
Editorial note
This atom serves the same overarching line of argument that confines prohibition, but it focuses on preventing direct juristic addition.