هُوَ
ٱللَّهُ
ٱلَّذِي
لَآ
إِلَٰهَ
إِلَّا
هُوَۖ
عَٰلِمُ
ٱلۡغَيۡبِ
وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِۖ
هُوَ
ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ
ٱلرَّحِيمُ
٢٢
He is Allah—there is no god ˹worthy of worship˺ except Him: Knower of the seen and unseen. He is the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
He is Allāh, other than whom there is no deity, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed.1 He is the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
— Saheeh International
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
Asserting the Greatness of the Qur'an
Allah the Exalted emphasizes the greatness of the Qur'an, its high status, and its being worthy of making hearts humble and rent asunder upon hearing it, because of the true promises and sure threats that it contains,
لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَذَا الْقُرْءَانَ عَلَى جَب
…Asserting the Greatness of the Qur'an
Allah the Exalted emphasizes the greatness of the Qur'an, its high status, and its being worthy of making hearts
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