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An Extended Translation of Surah “IKHLAS” 234
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that is endowed upon the believing, obedient
servants alone. The believers, because of their true
belief, good actions, and faithful active obedience.

“The Gracious”
- According to Lane (Arabic-English Lexicon
Dictionary), “raḥmān” has the more intensive
meaning, taken to include as objects of
sympathy both the believer and the unbeliever,
and may therefore be rendered as “the All-
merciful”, and “raḥīm”, on the other hand, is
taken to include as objects the believer in
particular, may be rendered as “the Gracious”.
And no need to add the word “All”, because the
“rahim” has not that intensive meaning.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmala)
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ٌ َ ُ َّ َ ُ ْ ُ
1 ) ( دحأ هللا وه لق

1.Say: “He, Allah, is One”

- The Arabic word “Qul” is an imperative verb
means “say”.

- The Arabic word “huwa” is a pronoun-third-
male-person-singular which means “He”.

- In addition to the above, the word Allah is a
proper name for God, which is used for nothing
but God, while other names for Him, each of
which usually refers to one of His qualities of