Formulation of the claim
The author shows that the Qur’an awakens a sense of sin, whereas inherited interpretation tends to fix meaning within closed binaries.
Explanation
The author distinguishes between the act of the Qur’an and the act of inherited interpretation in this respect. The Qur’an awakens a sense of sin, while rigid interpretation tends to fix meaning within closed binaries.
Its place in the book’s argument
This idea falls within a trajectory that shows the difference between the living text and its later modes of reception, and it helps highlight the effect of interpretive reading when it turns meaning into closed formulations.
What the atom does not say
It does not say that every interpretation necessarily leads to this effect, nor does it settle the nature of this difference outside the context provided by the author.