Intended Meaning
The claim here is specific and qualified: according to Shahrur, the shares of spouses and siblings are not fixed at a single amount in every case; in some cases, he describes them as limits that admit increase and decrease.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
He says: «While the shares of spouses and siblings in some cases are limits that can increase and decrease».
The qualification “in some cases” must be retained: the passage does not generalize this flexibility to all cases involving spouses and siblings.
Atlas Explanation
This atom records Shahrur’s description of these shares as “limits” capable of moving upward or downward in the cases he intends. The atlas does not turn this description into a detailed computational rule, because the passage does not state the amounts or the conditions for its application.
Synthetic Inference
Within the limits of its text, this statement opens the way to a non-rigid reading of some shares of spouses and siblings. This is an inference from the terms “limits” and “can increase and decrease,” not an account of the details of a complete system of distribution.
Open Question and Limits of the Evidence
Which cases are intended? What criterion determines the increase or decrease? The available passage does not answer this, nor does it explain the effect of this conception on calculating each case of distribution.
Reading Aids
- Muhammad Shahrur, Toward New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence
- the Book and the Qur’an and the Mother of the Book
- The Light verse sets a minimum for dress and leaves the rest to custom
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