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Beauty and Glory, are often used for other than Him.

- The term “ahad” is derived from the root “w-h-
d”, and some believe that “ahad” and “wahid”
are the same in many cases. “Ahad” means “the
One”; He Who has always been one and alone;
or He Who has no second. In this verse “ahad”
is a substitute for Allah, that God is Allah, i.e.
One; One in the sense of Absolute Oneness of
Allah, not in the numerical sense of the word,
which has its second and third, but, the One
which has no second, therefore, it’s better to be
saied “unique” or “alon”. But it’s a littel
exegetical and far from the surfacial meaning.
Moreover, most of Quran’s translators have
prefered the word “One” instead.

ُ َ َّ ُ َّ
2 ) ( دمصلا هللا

2. “Allah, the Intended Lord”

- The literal meaning of “Samad” is a lord, all
people are heading toward him. (See: Raghib for
Qur’anic Vocabulary)

- Of course some others have said “samad” means
“independent of anyone”, “All perfect”,
“”Eternal”, “Indipendent”, “Who is besought by
all”, “The Everlasting Sovereign” and etc. No
mention, that most of them is not surfacial
meaning, but exegetical meaning. According to
the narations the term “samad” has such a vast
meaning that we cannot mention them completely,
The word “Rahim” refers to that Specific Mercy