In this source, the Muhammadan message is the domain of legislation and public order; it is also the universal message that is not confined to a narrow historical circumstance. Muhammad Shahrur distinguishes it from prophethood, and makes it the basis for the universality of the text, the limits of prohibition, shura, and equality.
Referred to by
- Reasons for revelation restrict the Qur’anic text
- The new principles of jurisprudence are based on distinguishing between the fixity of the text and the historicity of understanding
- Dressing political conflict in religious garb
- Political history turned the message into a legitimation of kingship and power
- Legislation and prohibition belong to the message, not the state
- Legislation is governed by textual limits and by distinguishing prohibition from restriction
- Distinguishing between the station of messengerhood and the station of prophethood
- The Muhammadan message ended the age of male dominance
- The Muhammadan message establishes equality between the sexes
- The Muhammadan message is universal
- The message rebuilds society and the family on the basis of equality and contract
- The conflict after the Prophet’s death was political
- The historical reading of the Qur’an rejects limiting its universality
- Abrogation diminishes the universality of the message
- The universality of the message requires a Qur’anic reading independent of historicism and transmitted report
- The station of messengerhood is the station of legislation and organization
- The station of prophethood is the station of the unseen and tidings
- Toward new foundations for Islamic jurisprudence: the Qur’an as the source of renewed legislation and jurisprudence as a historical understanding subject to revision