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CH. 112 AL-IKHLĀṢ 4. He begets not," nor is He begotten; 4869 5. And there is none like unto Him. ' 4870 PT. 30 لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْة وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدةً accomplished. "17:112; 19:93; 25:3; 37:153. also means, a whom or attributes know no bound or limit. الصمد This is the meaning of means, person or place above which there is no one. the Supreme Being to Whom recourse is had for the accomplishment of needs; Who is Independent of all and upon Whom all depend for their needs; Who will continue forever after all creation has ceased to exit; above Whom there is no one. (Lane & Aqrab). Commentary: He 1S In the preceding verse the claim was made that God is One, Alone, and Unique. The present verse substantiates that claim. It says that God is i. e. all things and beings depend upon Him and Independent and Besought of all. All have need of Him and He has need of none. He needed the help of no being or material to create the universe. So when all things and beings are dependent on Him and to Him we have recourse for our needs and requirements and He fulfils them, then where is the necessity of any other God? In fact, nothing in the universe is complete in itself, not even the smallest atom. Nothing is self- subsisting; everything depends on some other thing for its existence. God alone is such a Being Who depends on no being or thing. He is above conception and conjecture. His 4869. Commentary: الصمد The Divine attribute (Independent and Besought of all) was mentioned in the previous verse to establish the claim that Allah is (One, Alone, the Unique), and now in the verse under comment the Divine attribute we (He begets not, nor is He begotten) is mentioned to show that He is i. e. God is above need, the presence of need because presupposes that He requires the assistance of someone without whom He cannot carry on His work, and who should continue His work, after He is dead, inasmuch as all those beings that succeed, or are succeeded by others, are subject to death, but those things which need no successor and do not die before fulfilling the object of their creation, such as the sun, the moon, the oceans, the mountains, etc. , are not subject to death or destruction. Thus Allah Who 3470 succeeded by no one is complete in all His attributes and is Eternal, Everlasting and Absolute. 4870. Commentary: has succeeded no one and will be This verse disposes of a possible doubt that the previous verses might have created: Granted that Allah is One, Alone, Absolute and Independent of all and that He neither