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Commentary and Translation of the Holy Quran by
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Chapter 112 (Al-Ikhlas - The Unity) . Chapter
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. 1. Say: He, Allah, is One.
In the second verse Allah is said to be Samad, which the Holy Prophet is reported to have explained as meaning the Lord to Whom recourse is had in every need (AH), so that all have need of Him and He has need of none. This statement negatives the doctrine according to which soul and matter are co-eternal with God and God stands in need of them to bring about creation. The doctrine prevails in India, and could not have been known to the Holy Prophet. The third verse points out the error of those religions which describe God as being father or son, such as the Christian religion. The fourth verse negatives such doctrines as the doctrine of incarnation, according to which a mere man is likened to God. Thus four kinds of shirk are rejected here, a belief in the plurality of gods (v. 1), a belief that other things possess the perfect attributes of the Divine Being (v. 2), a belief that God is either a father or a son (v. 3), and a belief that others can do that which is ascribable only to God (Back to the Translation). Holy
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Commentary and Translation of the Holy Quran by
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Chapter 112 (Al-Ikhlas - The Unity)
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