Kashani Tafsir — al-Ikhlas 112:1

Say: “He is God, One; God, the Self-Sufficient….” “O MuḤammad! The estranged have asked you about My lineage. Say: ‘God, One.’” God is one and unique, one in Essence and attributes, one in exaltedness and power, one in divinity and lord- hood, one in beginninglessness and endlessness. He is worthy of Godhood, knower of God-work, […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Ikhlas 112:2

Say: “He is God, One; God, the Self-Sufficient….” “O MuḤammad! The estranged have asked you about My lineage. Say: ‘God, One.’” God is one and unique, one in Essence and attributes, one in exaltedness and power, one in divinity and lord- hood, one in beginninglessness and endlessness. He is worthy of Godhood, knower of God-work, […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Falaq 113:1

Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak. The road of the common servants, in keeping with the outwardness of this verse, is continually to seek refuge in the Lord of the world’s folk from the evil of the bad, the deceit of the deceivers, the envy of the enviers, and the bad […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Humazah 104:5

And what will let thee know what is the Crusher? And how would you know, O MuḤammad, how hard are the depths of the Crusher? And how burning is its fire!

Kashani Tafsir — al-Humazah 104:6

The lit-up fire of God. If a speck of that fire were to appear in this world, it would burn all the folk of this world. The mountains would melt and the earth would sink down. So, what is the state of someone who is in the midst of this fire? He has the attribute […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Humazah 104:7

Roaring over the hearts, coming down on them in outstretched columns. In the tongue of the folk of allusion and in keeping with the tasting of the folk of understanding, the lit-up fire of God is what the Pir of the Tariqah said: “It is a fire set by the limpidness of love that spoils […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Humazah 104:8

Roaring over the hearts, coming down on them in outstretched columns. In the tongue of the folk of allusion and in keeping with the tasting of the folk of understanding, the lit-up fire of God is what the Pir of the Tariqah said: “It is a fire set by the limpidness of love that spoils […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Humazah 104:9

Roaring over the hearts, coming down on them in outstretched columns. In the tongue of the folk of allusion and in keeping with the tasting of the folk of understanding, the lit-up fire of God is what the Pir of the Tariqah said: “It is a fire set by the limpidness of love that spoils […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Kafirun 109:1

Say: “O unbelievers!” ʿAbdallāh ibn ʿAbbās said that no surah is more difficult and harsher for Satan than this surah, because it is sheer tawḤīd and disavowal of associationism. TawḤīd is of two sorts: the tawḤīd of attestation and the tawḤīd of recognition. The tawḤīd of attestation is to say one, and the tawḤīd of […]

Kashani Tafsir — al-Masad 111:1

Perish the hands of Abū Lahab, and perish he! What did Abū Lahab do in the Beginningless that his portion was the brand of deprivation? What did Abū Bakr bring forth in the Beginningless that the crown of felicity and generosity was placed on the head of his passing days? You say that Abū Lahab […]