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Verse: "You alone we worship and You alone we ask for help" Reflection: Classical Arabic would normally say "na'buduka" (we worship y…

Verse: "Allah — there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer..." (2:255) Virtue: The Prophet ﷺ said: "The greatest ver…

Verse: "So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth — the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created all people. No change …

Verse: "Allah bears witness that there is no deity except Him — and the angels and those of knowledge — standing in justice." (3:18) Al…

Verse: "Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him and show kindness to parents." (17:23) — "Decreed" (qada) = a firm irrevocable…

Verse: "Glory be to the One who created all pairs." (36:36) — Everything in the universe comes in pairs. The Only One without a pair: Alla…

Verse: "Who is this that would provide for you if He withheld His provision?" (67:21) — "Amman" = "or who?" — a challenge by interrogative…

Verse: "And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and g…

Verses: "Say: O disbelievers (1) I do not worship what you worship... To you your religion and to me mine" Reflection: The polytheist…

The complete surah: "Say: He is Allah, One (1) Allah, the Eternal Refuge (2) He neither begets nor is born (3) nor is there to Him any equ…

Verse: "We called to him: O Ibrahim, you have fulfilled the vision." (37:104-105) — Ibrahim ﷺ reached the moment — the knife on his only s…

Verse: "Indeed Allah does not forgive associating partners with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whoever He wills. Whoever …

Verse: "Indeed I am Allah — there is no god except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance." (20:14) — This verse is dir…

Verse: "O my son, do not associate partners with Allah — polytheism is a great injustice." (31:13) — "O my son" — the parental educational…

Verse: "A good word like a good tree — its root firm, its branch in the sky." (14:24) — "Good word" = laa ilaaha illallah. "Root firm" = m…

Verse: "Vision cannot perceive Him, but He perceives all vision, and He is the Subtle, the Acquainted." (6:103) — "Cannot perceive" with c…

Verse: "And He is God in the heaven and God on earth." (43:84) — One comprehensive lordship of heavens and earth. No separate God for sky …

Occasion of Revelation (Hasan — Tirmidhi & Tabarani): The polytheists — or some People of the Book — asked the Prophet ﷺ: "Describe your …

Occasion of Revelation (Sahih — Agreed Upon): Narrated through multiple chains in both Sahihayn: The polytheists saw the Prophet ﷺ prostr…

Verse: "They were not commanded except to worship Allah with sincere devotion as upright people." (98:5) Occasion (Sahih): The surah wa…

Surah: "Say: He is Allah, the One. Allah, the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, nor is there to Him any equivalent." (112:1-4…

Verse: "And that the masjids are for Allah, so do not invoke anyone along with Allah." (Al-Jinn 18) Context: Surah Al-Jinn was reveal…

Quranic context: Al-Anbiya 57-68 / As-Saffat 91-98 Context: Ibrahim's people left for their festival, leaving the idols. He broke them…

Verse: "When Luqman said to his son while advising him: 'O my son, do not associate anything with Allah — indeed, shirk is a great wrong.'…

Quranic context: Yusuf entered prison alongside two young men. Each had a dream and asked for its interpretation. Before answering, Yusuf…

Quranic context: Al-Baqarah 258 Context: Ibrahim entered upon Nimrod and debated him about the Lord. Nimrod claimed lordship: "I give …

Quranic context: Maryam 27-33 / Ali Imran 46 Context: Maryam brought Isa to her people. They said: "O Maryam, you have done something …

Quranic context: Al-Buruj 4-9 (The Trench) + the full hadith in Sahih Muslim 3005 Occasion (Sahih — Muslim): Suhaib Al-Rumi narrated f…

Verse: "You did not kill them, but Allah killed them. And you did not throw when you threw, but Allah threw." (Al-Anfal 17) Context: T…

Definition: Singling out Allah in what is exclusive to Him — Rububiyyah, Uluhiyyah, and Asma wa Sifat. Three types: (1) Rububiyyah: af…

The question: The Quran uses first-person plural pronouns — "We," "Indeed We," "We revealed," "We created" — referring to Allah alone. …

The comprehensive verse: "So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. The fitrah of Allah upon which He has created peopl…

Verse: "You alone we worship and You alone we ask for help." (1:5) Exclusivity by fronting: "Iyyaka" is placed before the verb — Arabi…

Definition: Fronting what is normally placed last for a rhetorical purpose — principally, exclusivity: when an object is fronted before it…