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PURITY OF FAITH

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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful!

Say: He is Allah, the one and only God

the Eternal, the Absolute

He begot none, nor was He begotten

and there is none comparable to Him

This short surah is “equivalent to one third of the Qur’an”. al Bukhari, the leading traditionist, was told about someone who had heard a man reciting, “Say: He is Allah…” repeatedly and had gone to the Prophet the following morning and told him disapprovingly about what he had heard.

The Prophet commented, “I swear by Him in Whose hand is my soul that it (the surah) is equivalent to one third of the Qur’an.” And, indeed, there is nothing surprising in that. For the unity of Allah which the Messenger was ordered to declare to the whole world is a belief to be ingrained in our beings, an explanation of human existence and a way of life in itself.

From thisstandpoint, the surah can be said to have embraced in the clearest terms the principal and most fundamental ideas of the great truth of Islam.