In the name of Allåh, the Beneficent,
the Merciful.
1 Say: He, Allåh, is One.
2 Allåh is He on Whom all depend.
3 He begets not, nor is He begotten;
4 And none is like Him.a
4a. This, a very early Makkan revelation, points out the fundamental errors of many
religions, including Christianity, in its four short sentences. The first verse proclaims the
absolute Unity of the Divine Being, and deals a death-blow to all forms of polytheism,
including the doctrine of the Trinity.
In the second verse Allåh is said to be ˝amad, 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.
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2006-09-21
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