God, In the Qur’an
Chapter 112 – The Unity
1. Say: He is Allah, the One;
2. Allah, the Eternal, the Uncaused Cause of All Being;
2. He begets not, nor is He begotten;
3. And there is none like Him.
2. This rendering gives no more than an approximate meaning of the term as-samad, which occurs in the Qur'an only once, and is applied to God alone. It comprises the concepts of Primary Cause and eternal, independent Being, combined with the idea that everything existing or conceivable goes back to Him as its source and is therefore, dependent on Him for its beginning as well as for its continued existence.
4. The fact that God is one and unique in every respect, without beginning and without end, has its logical correlate in the statement that "there is nothing that could be compared with Him" - thus precluding any possibility of describing or defining Him. Consequently, the quality of His Being is beyond the range of human comprehension or imagination: which also explains why any attempt at "depicting" God by means of figurative representations or even abstract symbols must be qualified as an absolute denial of the truth.
This chapter in the Quran is originally called as Al-Ikhlas, which means “Purity of Faith”.
Translations and explanations are from the website http://kuran.gen.tr
- ENGLISH QURAN (A. YUSUF ALİ)
- ENGLISH QURAN & COMMENTARY (MUHAMMED ESED)
1. Say: He is Allah, the One;
2. Allah, the Eternal, the Uncaused Cause of All Being;
2. He begets not, nor is He begotten;
3. And there is none like Him.
2. This rendering gives no more than an approximate meaning of the term as-samad, which occurs in the Qur'an only once, and is applied to God alone. It comprises the concepts of Primary Cause and eternal, independent Being, combined with the idea that everything existing or conceivable goes back to Him as its source and is therefore, dependent on Him for its beginning as well as for its continued existence.
4. The fact that God is one and unique in every respect, without beginning and without end, has its logical correlate in the statement that "there is nothing that could be compared with Him" - thus precluding any possibility of describing or defining Him. Consequently, the quality of His Being is beyond the range of human comprehension or imagination: which also explains why any attempt at "depicting" God by means of figurative representations or even abstract symbols must be qualified as an absolute denial of the truth.
This chapter in the Quran is originally called as Al-Ikhlas, which means “Purity of Faith”.
Translations and explanations are from the website http://kuran.gen.tr
- ENGLISH QURAN (A. YUSUF ALİ)
- ENGLISH QURAN & COMMENTARY (MUHAMMED ESED)
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