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References

1. Sūrat Yūnus 10:31-32. (All Qur’anic verses are quoted from the translation of ‘Alī Qulī Qarā’ī.)

2. Sūrat al-Anbiyā’ 21:57-68.

3. Sūrat al-Anbiyā’ 21:57-68.

4. Sūrat al-‘Ankabūt 29:65.

5. Or ‘How are you being misled’, or ‘How are you being rendered blind’.

6. Sūrat al-Mu’minūn 23:84-89.

7. Majma‘ al-Bayān, footnote of this same verse.

8. Sūrat al-‘Ankabūt 29:61-63.

9. Or ‘That is because Allah is the Truth.’

10. Or ‘What they invoke besides Him is falsehood.’

11. That is, Satan, or anything that diverts a human being from the path of Allah.

12. Sūrat Luqmān 31:25-34.

13. Sūrat al-Kahf 18:109.

14. Nahj al-Balāghah, short saying no. 466.

15. Bihār al-Anwār, vol. 102, p. 165.

16. Ibid., vol. 22, p. 461.

17. Or ‘That is because Allah is the Truth.’

18. That is, the idolaters, who threatened the Prophet with the vengeance of their gods.

19. Sūrat al-Zumar 39:36-37.

20. Sūrat Hūd 11:54.

21. Sūrat al-Zumar 39:38.

22. Sūrat Yūsuf 12:106.

23. Majma‘ al-Bayān, vol. 5, p. 462.

24. Nahj al-Balāghah, sermon [khutbah] no. 1.

25. Sūrat al-Zukhruf 43:9.

26. Sūrat al-Zukhruf 43:85-87.

27. Tafsīr ‘Kanz al-Daqāniq’, vol. 9, p. 380.

28. Tafsīr Qurtubī, vol. 16, p. 123.

29. Sūrat al-Baqarah 2:116-117.

30. Nahj al-Balāghah, sermon [khutbah] no. 90.

31. Sūrat al-Ikhlās 112:1.

32. Al-Kāfi, vol. 1, p. 91, section [bāb] nisbah.

33. Sūrat al-An‘ām 6:100-101.

34. Sūrat al-Jinn 72:6.

35. Lit.: ‘They ascribe to Him a portion from among His servants.’

36. That is, when he is brought the news of the birth of a daughter.

37. Sūrat al-Zukhruf 43:15-19.

38. Lit.: ‘They ascribe to Him a portion from among His servants.’

39. Sūrat al-Isrā’ (or Banī Isrā’īl) 17:40.

40. Sūrat al-Kahf 18:4-5.

41. Sūrat Maryam 19:88-93.

42. Sūrat al-Anbiyā’ 21:26-29.

43. Sūrat al-Mu’minūn 23:91.

44. Sūrat al-Furqān 25:1-2.

45. Or ‘while they were witnesses’.

46. That is, in support of what they assert.

47. Sūrat al-Sāffāt 37:149-160.

48. Sūrat al-Sāffāt 37:87.

49. That is, in support of what they assert.

50. God: or name of the principle or originator of good.

51. Satan: or the fiend.

52. Sūrat al-Najm 53:19-30.

53. Tafsīr ‘Illīyyīn, p. 526.

54. Sūrat al-Ikhlās 112:1-4. This Sūrah—also called “Sūrat al-Tawhīd”—is a statement of Islamic monotheism which negates any kind of anthropomorphism that may compromise

pure monotheism or tawhīd. It is called ‘Sūrah al-Ikhlās’, as it purges tawhīd of deviant ideas and posits it in its exclusive purity.

55. Sūrat al-Jinn 72:3-4.

56. Sūrat al-Isrā’ (or Banī Isrā’īl) 17:46.

57. Sūrat al-Zumar 39:45.

58. Sūrat al-Shawrā 42:13.

59. That is, in the polytheistic creed prevalent in pre-Islamic Arabia.

60. Sūrat Sād 38:5-7.

61. That is, in the polytheistic creed prevalent in pre-Islamic Arabia.