What is meant
Becoming is the outcome, or the final developmental transformation, to which being comes through process It does not mean a transient movement, but the end that takes shape through gradual transformation
The atom’s structure in the atlas
- Type of argument: definitional
- Argument movement: it defines becoming as the final developmental outcome.
- Key terms: becoming, final outcome, development.
- Degree of centrality: central.
It places the end of transformation within the course of development, making becoming a goal formed through process rather than a mere passing change or a separate moment.
Links that help with reading
- Muhammad Shahrur Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence
- History, Development, and Sunnas
- becoming
- Existence Is Understood Only Through the Interdependence of Being, Process, and Becoming
Basis
- Supporting text: “Becoming: the outcome, or the final/developmental transformation, to which being comes through process.”
Place of the basis in the book
- Book: Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence.
- Location: at the beginning of the book in the treatment of being, process, and becoming.
- Type of basis: close evidence.
- Marker that helps verification: what the first being arrived at
- Reading note: this passage is suitable as support because it explicitly states that becoming is what being arrived at after the stage of process, which is very close to the wording of the atom.
Degree of documentation
- Level: directly documented
- Meaning of the level: the atom relies on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
- Limits of reading: the wording above is an analytical summary, and should not be treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is quoted textually.
Its function in the book
Its function here is definitional; it sets out a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.
Related to
Editorial note
The atom completes the definition of movement by stating its end.