What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The witness states that fighting has “three Qur’anic objectives”: upholding God’s word through freedom, justice, and equality; safeguarding the earth from corruption; and protecting God’s houses from destruction. This is the transmitted formulation on which this entry relies.
Atlas Explanation
The entry does not add unsubstantiated definitions to the three objectives. Rather, it reads their enumeration as linking the concept of Fighting to purposes explicitly stated here, including those associated in the text with freedom, justice, and equality.
Conclusion
At the level of structural interpretation, the limitation to three objectives can be understood as a constraint on a conception of fighting with no defined purpose. This remains an inference from the structure of the statement, not an additional quotation beyond its text.
Open Question and Limits
Does Shahrur state elsewhere that fighting “is not an end in itself,” or clarify the conditions and practical limits of each objective? The evidence available here does not settle this. The witness text is also preserved in the quote field, but the full source context is unavailable in the package; therefore, no additional statements are attributed to him and the quotation is not expanded.
Links That Help with Reading
- Muhammad Shahrur: Drying Up the Springs of Terrorism
- Jihad, Fighting, and the Critique of Violence
- Qur’anic verses of fighting and the Muhammadan narrative do not legitimize absolute violence
Drying Up the Springs of Terrorism · Qur’anic verses of fighting and the Muhammadan narrative do not legitimize absolute violence