Sura al-Ikhlas: Difference between revisions

This sura is known as Sura al-Ikhlas and al-Tawhid.<ref>''Dāʾirat al-maʿārif Qurʾān'', vol. 2, p. 355-356.</ref> About the cause of naming, it is mentioned that it is named as al-Tawhid ([[monotheism]])<ref>Ṭabāṭabāyī, ''al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān'', vol. 20, p. 387.</ref> since [[God]] is ascribed with unity and it is named as al-Ikhlas, because reflecting upon its content purifies human being from polytheism and thus makes people released from the [[hellfire]].<ref>Ṭabrisī, ''Majmaʿ al-bayān'', vol. 10, p. 479.</ref> Also, in hadiths and old sources, it is called Sura "Qul huwa Allah-u ahad" (Say, 'He is Allah, the One') because this statement is the first [[verse]] of this sura.<ref>''Dāʾirat al-maʿārif Qurʾān'', vol. 2, p. 355-356.</ref>

[[Al-Tabrisi]] considered Sura al-Ikhlas, [[Makki]] and wrote that it is also said that it was [[Madani]].<ref>Ṭabrisī, ''Majmaʿ al-bayān'', vol. 10, p. 479.</ref> Al-Suyuti, among Sunni scholars, believed that Sura al-Ikhlas was revealed twice: once in [[Mecca]] and once in [[Medina]];<ref>Suyūṭī, ''al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān'', vol. 1, p. 140.</ref> but, [['Allama Tabataba'i]] wrote that according to the events mentioned about the [[occasion of the revelation]] of Sura al-Ikhlas, it seems that it was Makki.<ref>Ṭabāṭabāyī, ''al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān'', vol. 20, p. 387.</ref> In the order of [[revelation]], Sura al-Ikhlas was twenty second sura revealed to the Prophet (s). In the current order of compilation in the Qur'an, this sura is 112th sura located in [[juz']] thirty.

In ''[[Tafsir al-Mizan]]'', 'Allama Tabataba'i wrote that Sura al-Ikhlas praises God with unity and that all beings are needful of Him in all their affairs and no one is His partner in essence, in [[attributes of God|attributes]], nor in actions. This type of unity is special to the Qur'an; and all (principal, secondary, and moral) teachings of the Qur'an are established based on it.<ref>Ṭabāṭabāyī, ''al-Mīzān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān'', vol. 20, p. 669.</ref>

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