Basic Al-Baqarah Surah: Al-Baqarah (255)

Verse: "Allah — there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer..." (2:255)

Virtue: The Prophet ﷺ said: "The greatest verse in the Quran is Ayat Al-Kursi." (Muslim) And: "Whoever recites it after every prescribed prayer, nothing stands between him and Paradise except death." (Nasai — Sahih)

Ten divine names and attributes in one verse:

1. "Allah" — the comprehensive name of the Divine Essence
2. "No deity but Him" — tawhid Al-uluhiyyah
3. "Al-Hayy" — perfect eternal life
4. "Al-Qayyum" — self-subsisting, sustainer of all
5. "Neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him" — perfection of life (no heedlessness)
6. "To Him belongs what is in heavens and earth" — perfect ownership
7. "Who intercedes except by His permission" — perfect might
8. "He knows what is before them and behind them" — perfect knowledge
9. "They encompass nothing of His knowledge except what He wills" — Allah's exclusive perfect knowledge
10. "His Kursi encompasses the heavens and earth" — perfect magnificence

Source: Sahih Muslim (810); Ibn Kathir (1/680); Al-Sadi

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