الإخلاص

Reading with Majmaʿ al-Bayān

1. قُلْ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ﴿١﴾

   112:1 · no commentary for this ayah

2. ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ﴿٢﴾

   Ẓāhir (apparent)

   "God, the Eternally Besought (al-Ṣamad)" — the One upon whom all depend while He depends on none.

   Bāṭin / reported

   Imam-narrations gloss al-Ṣamad apophatically — no jawf (interior), neither eats nor sleeps, endures when creation perishes — i.e. anti-corporeal tanzīh, not bodily description.

   Theology

   Read under tanzīh; converges with 42:11.

3. لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ﴿٣﴾

   112:3 · no commentary for this ayah

4. وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌۢ﴿٤﴾

   112:4 · no commentary for this ayah