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Dr. Haitham Talaat
Anyone contemplating the propositions of Muhammad Shahrour realizes without doubt that they represent an explicit departure from the path of Islam; rather, they are pure heresy (zandaqa) disguised in the garb of contemporary reading. We shall examine here a single piece of evidence that exposes the frailty and falsehood of this methodology.
Shahrour innovated a specific classification for the Book of Allah, claiming that the verses of the Wise Remembrance are divided into two parts: a part he called "The Qur'an," to which he restricted the quality of miraculousness (i'jaz), and another part he called "The Mother of the Book and its Detail." The danger lies in his claim that this latter part—which includes more than a thousand verses—is a text subject to imitation and forgery, and is governed by the culture of societies, thereby stripping it of its divine miraculous attribute.
This is a claim never preceded by any Muslim; rather, it is an embodiment of Allah's words regarding the disbelievers:
{Who have made the Qur'an into fragments}
(Surah Al-Hijr: 91). For Allah, Glory be to Him, has challenged all of humanity to produce a single Surah like it, and He did not exclude a single verse from the attribute of miraculousness:
{And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant, then produce a Surah the like thereof}
(Surah Al-Baqarah: 23). Thus, claiming that a thousand verses are devoid of miraculousness is an explicit denial of the clear text of the Qur'an.
Those verses that Shahrour permitted himself to tamper with are, in reality, the verses of legal rulings (Ayat al-Ahkam). He deliberately selected specific verses claiming they were the "Muhkam" (entirely clear), while rendering the rest of the verses as mere details subject to esoteric (batini) interpretation. Through this method, he permitted what Allah has forbidden, such as the consumption of alcohol and cohabitation; he even went as far as considering all inhabitants of the earth to be Muslims, in a heinous conflation of concepts.
This methodology is nothing but an attempt to formulate an Islam that aligns with Marxist and atheistic backgrounds, presenting a libertine conception that satisfies those of whims under the guise of "reflection" (tadabbur). What his followers do today, such as Adel Esmat and Youssef Abu Awad under the pretext of resisting terrorism, is nothing but the dissemination of esoteric atheism that destroys the pillars of religion from within.
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