Grade One Islamic Studies Worksheet 7.

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Surah Al-Ikhlas

We shall look a little more at the meaning of

Surah Al-Ikhlas.

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Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One,

In this verse Allah refers to Himself as Ahad

(One). He doesn’t use the word Wahid which
also means one. There is a difference between
these two words.

Ahad is a word which lets us know that they

are no others like it anywhere. Wahid can
mean that there is only one here but there
can still be another one somewhere else.

When we talk about one of something in the

creation, it does not mean that there is not a
similar one somewhere else.

But when we talk about Allah and we say that

He is One (Ahad), it means that He is One and
there is no other like Him.

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Allah, the Eternal Refuge.
When we say that Allah is Al-Samad (The Self-
Sufficient) it means that He is perfect in
everything about Him and that all of creation
is in need of Him.

Even those people who don’t realise that they

need Allah and those people who don’t
worship Allah, they are in fact all in need of
Him every second of the day.

Allah is so perfect that even although we all

need Him, He is not in need of us. We depend
on Him for everything yet He doesn’t need
anything from us.

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He neither begets nor is born,

Many of the false religions believe that Allah

needs or has children. Allah tells us here clearly
that “He does not give birth nor was He born.”
Allah does not have sons or daughters and He
Himself is not the son or daughter of anyone
else.

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Nor is there to Him any equivalent."

Allah finished this surah of the Qur’an by telling

us that there is none equal to Him.

This follows on from what Allah told us at the

beginning of this surah. Allah told us that He is
uniquely One (Ahad) and so if He is unique it
means that there can be none equal to Him.

1. When we say Allah is One (Ahad), it means

that He is One and there is __________ other
like Him.

2. Everyone ___________ Allah but Allah is

________ in need of anything from us.

3. Allah does not give __________ nor was He

_____________.

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