Surah 112. Al-Ikhlaas, Ayah 4
| وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- lam yakun la- -hu kufuw(an) 'ah.ad |
| Pickthall | : | And there is none comparable unto Him. |
| Asad | : | "and there is nothing that could be compared with Him."2 |
| Malik | : | And there is none comparable to Him. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | And there is none like unto Him. 6300 |
Note - 2Cf. 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.
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Note - 6300This 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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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. |
