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We will be adding to this section explanatory comments on passages from the wird and the qasidas.
The abbreviations RE and OE refer to pages in the Revised Edition (Quilliam Press. 2022)
and the older edition (Qasida Press, 2015).
Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ, repeated 3 times (RE 56, OE 50)
In a ḥadīth in Muslim and Bukhāri, the Messenger of Allāh (S ) asked some of the Companions (R), “Is one of you not able to recite one third of the Qur’ān in a single night?” And they asked (how that was possible). He answered, Say, He, Allāh, the One… is equivalent to one third of the Qur’ān.
And in a ḥadīth reported in Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, and elsewhere, it is stated that a man heard another man reciting Sūrat-ul-Ikhlāṣ…and repeating it. In the morning, the man went to the Messenger of Allāh and mentioned it to him as a complaint (that is, that its recitation (alone) was not sufficient).The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said, “By Him in Whose Hand is my soul! That (Sūra) equals one-third of the Qur’ān.”
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