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SURAH AL-IKHLAS
Quran Study Sessions – Session 3
Nov 17, 2019
❑ Objective
❑ To learn from each other the book of Allah (inspired by the Hadith: لمه خيركم من تعلم القرآن وعmeaning “Best among you are those who learn the Quran and teaches it”
❑ Mode
❑ Online (beyond geographical boundaries)
❑ Study circle
❑ Learn from various source: scholars, tafaseer (explanation of Quran) and share the learnings
❑ Interactive, not one way
❑ Some notes
❑ None of us claim to be scholars
❑ Any contentious issue, we will go back to scholars.
❑ Purpose of learning is to ponder over and implement in our own lives
About these Sessions
❑ Need for divine guidance
❑ Quran is words of GOD, revealed on the last Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص)
❑ Neither prose nor poetry but series of divine orations
❑ Divine orations at different times but beautifully organized
❑ What this book demands
❑ Believe in it
❑ Understand it
❑ Ponder over it
❑ Act upon
❑ Spread the message
Quick Recap on Introduction to Quran
❑ Oath by Time to convey the importance of the message
❑ Address to Humanity
❑ Everybody is in Loss
❑ Exceptions:
❑ Believe
❑ Do good deeds
❑ Enjoin Truth
❑ Enjoin Patience
Quick Recap on Surah Al-Asr
Axis of Belief
Belief (α) Disbelief (α)
Good Deeds
Bad Deeds
Axis of Belief
Belief (α) Disbelief (α)
Good Deeds
Bad Deeds
• Conditions of Success
• Belief
Axis of Belief
Belief (α)
Disbelief (α)
Good Deeds
Bad Deeds
• Conditions of Success
• Belief
• Good deeds
• Enjoin Truth
• Enjoin Patience
Axis of Belief
Belief (α)
Disbelief (α)
Good Deeds
Bad Deeds
• Conditions of Success
• Belief
• Good deeds
• Enjoin Truth
• Enjoin Patience
• Loss
• Loss
• Loss
❑ ال إله إال هللا محمد رسول هللا
❑ There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص) is His messenger.
❑ Surah Al-Ikhas is the introduction to this One GOD
Belief
Surah Al-Ikhlas -112
❑ Say, “He is Allah, [who is] One
❑ Allah, the Eternal Refuge
❑ He neither begets nor is born
❑ Nor is there to Him any equivalent
❑ Generally the Surah Names are just identification and not related to contents
❑ But this Surah has the name which is about the content
❑ Ikhlas – meaning purification
❑ This Surah purifies the faith from Shirk (Polytheism)
❑ There are multiple names of this Surah
Surah Name
❑ According to the most scholars this Surah was revealed in Makkah
❑ One of the earliest Surahs to be revealed
❑ One of the last to be arranged in the Mushaf (Quran)
❑ Revealed as a result of Questions:
❑ Tell us the ancestry of your Lord?”
❑ Tell us if you Lord is made of gold or silver?
❑ What is his sex, does he eat or drink?
❑ Tell us the attributes of your Lord who sent you as a Prophet
❑ Many beliefs existed at the time (Polytheism, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Sabeans, etc.)
❑ Theme of this Surah – Tauheed (Oneness of God)
Time and Context of Revelation
❑ Many traditions of Hadith says the Surah is equivalent to 1/3rd of the Quran
❑ Three main doctrines in Quran
❑ Tauheed (Oneness of God)
❑ Apostleship
❑ Hereafter
❑ Love of this Surah leads to Paradise and Love of Allah
Merits
❑ Say - proclaim or declare or openly announce something
❑ First addressee is Prophet (ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص), after him every believer
❑ He is Allah
❑ Allah was familiar name to the people of Makkah
❑ There are many (99+) names (such as Al-Rahman, Al-Raheem) of Allah, but Allah is considered as proper name by most scholars.
First verse – Oneness
❑ Ahad (more singular) vs Wahed
❑ Allah in its being is Ahad
❑ Allah in His attributes is Wahed
❑ One God is important for the universe to exist and sustain
❑ Say, [O Muhammad], "If there had been with Him [other] gods, as they say, then they [each] would have sought to the Owner of the Throne a way.“ (17-42)
First verse – Oneness
❑ Single code of ethics and morals are important
❑ Idea of oneness – extremely liberating
❑ Oneness should be internalizes and deeply rooted
First verse – Oneness
❑ Implications of Oneness of God:
❑ He alone is sustainer, no else share his providence
❑ He alone is the deity of worship
❑ He is the Creator of the universe, no one else is His associate in this
❑ He alone has been and will be God forever, neither there was a God before Him will there be any
❑ There no race or sex God, He is single and none is homogenous with Him
❑ He is free from every plurality
First verse – Oneness
❑ Scholastic breadth in the meaning of Al-Samad
❑ Allah, The Everlasting Sovereign
❑ The Self-Sufficient Master, Whom all creatures need, He neither eats nor drinks).
❑ Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
❑ Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;
❑ God the eternal.
❑ Allah is Besought of all, needing none.
❑ Allah, Who is in need of none and of Whom all are in need
❑ Allah, the Eternal Refuge.
Second verse – Al-Samad
❑ Many meaning of Samad:
❑ One who has no superior
❑ Chieftain who chieftaincy is perfect of most extraordinary kind
❑ He to whom people turn in times of calamity
❑ He who is independent of others and others are dependent on him
❑ He who is perfect all his attributes
❑ He who is immune to calamity
❑ He who is faultless, ever living and immortal
❑ Al-Samad – The …
Second verse – Al-Samad
❑ Wrong beliefs
❑People had concepts of God, like similar to men, married and had children
❑ Polytheist of Makkah used to believe angels as daughters
❑ Christians/Jews modified their beliefs that God has son
❑ If we to believe the above then
❑ God is not unique/one
❑ God needs help and support from children
❑ if God was born, then he didn’t existed before
Third verse
❑ All these have been negated
❑ Particularly in the first two verses (Ahad and As-Samad)
❑ But in this verse it is emphasized
❑ He neither begets
❑ He is nor begotten
Third verse - Neither begets nor begotten
❑ No one in the entire universe who is
❑ Similar to Allah
❑ Equal in rank with Him
❑ Resembling in His attributes works and powers in any degree
Fourth verse – No equivalent
❑ Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? (25:43)
❑ Slave of own desires, lusts, own passions, carnal desires
❑ According to Prophet “Of all false gods being worshipped and served, instead of Allah, worst in the sight of Allah is one’s own lust (Tabrani)
Hidden Idols
هه هواه أفأنت ا أرأيت من اتخذ إل 25:43- تكون عليه وكي
Summary
❑ Belief of One God important for success
❑ Fundamental doctrine of Islam
❑ 1/3rd of the Quran
❑ Its love leads to paradise
❑ Belief should internalize and should be deeply rooted
❑ http://www.quranwebsite.com/tadaddbur-e-quran%20english/112%20Surah%20Ikhlas.pdf
❑ http://www.quranwebsite.com/read/025%20Al-Furqan.pdf
❑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2_AbXfd28A
❑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmsOlTxVjDs
❑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSnU2wAnBP8
References
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