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Surah 112. Al-Ikhlas, Ayah 4

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وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌۢ
Walam yakun lahu kufuwan a h ad un
"and there is nothing that could be compared with Him."2
  - Mohammad Asad

Cf. note [2] on 89:3 , as well as surah {19}, note [77]. The fact that God is one and unique in every respect, without beginning and without end, has its logical correlate in the statement that "there is nothing that could be compared with Him - thus precluding any possibility of describing or defining Him (see note [88] on the last sentence of 6:100 ). Consequently, the quality of His Being is beyond the range of human comprehension or imagination: which also explains why any attempt at "depicting" God by means of figurative representations or even abstract symbols must be qualified as a blasphemous denial of the truth.

And there is none comparable to Him.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And there is none comparable to Him.'1
  - Mustafa Khattab

 As mentioned in the Introduction, the Quran has three main themes: 1. Stories. 2. Muslim teachings. 3. And belief in the unseen. Since Sûrah 112 covers the third theme, the Prophet (ﷺ) says in a ḥadîth collected by Bukhâri and Muslim that reading this sûrah equals reading one third of the Quran.

And there is none comparable unto Him.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
And there is none like unto Him. 6300
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

This sums up the whole argument and warns us specially against Anthropomorphism, the tendency to conceive of Allah after our own pattern, an insidious tendency that creeps in at all times and among all peoples.

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