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Ikhlaas in HD

*HD = High Definition Remember Surah Al-Ikhlas(The Sincerity)? Which, in case you did not know, and if I am not mistaken, is the sole surah that do not have the name of the surah mentioned in the verses. But perhaps you might want to know the reason behind such discrepancy? Before that, let's see what the surah talks about : Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One,  Allah , the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, Nor is there to Him any equivalent." (112:1-4) So what does it have to do with this surah? Based on the tafseer fi zilal by Sayyid Qutb rahimahullah, he said that " the Arabic term, aĥad, used here to refer to God’s oneness is much more precise than the more frequently used term, wāĥid, which means ‘one’. Aĥad has the added connotations of absolute and continuous unity and an absence of equals . " Click here  for the rest of the tafseer. If you understand the meaning of  absolute and continuous unity and an absen