What Is Attributed to Shahrur
Shahrur draws an explicit distinction between the fixed and the variable: the fixed, in his view, consists of “prohibitions, values, and limits,” while the variable is “human legislation connected to time and place.”
Atlas Explanation
The function of this atom is to preserve this contrast as stated: “the variable” should not be understood here as a general opposite of everything fixed, but as a description of human legislation in terms of its connection to time and place. For reference to the book: Muhammad Shahrur: A Guide to the Contemporary Reading of the Wise Revelation. For reading on the broader field: Legislation, Limits, and Prohibition.
Synthetic Inference
This distinction opens the way to reading human legislation as inseparable from its temporal and spatial circumstances, while keeping prohibitions, values, and limits on the side that the text calls fixed.
Open Question and Limits of the Evidence
This passage alone does not clarify how forms of legislative change are to be determined, nor what procedures or criteria govern it in particular cases. Nor is it sufficient on its own to determine the detailed meaning of “limits” in this contrast.