Surah Tawhid

Perfect One

Bismi-llah

ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

We begin in the Greatest Name of God,

Tremendous Love,

Overwhelming Tenderness.

Qul-huwa-

Allahu Ahad

Say that the secret of secrets

is this:

God is One, The One

and Only One.

Allah-us-Samad

God is the Infinite

Presence and Everlasting

Refuge in Whom all

things finally return.

Lam yalid wa lam yulad

God has no beginning,

and never was begun,

wa lam yakun lahu kufu'an-Ahad

and beside Him, there is no One at all.

Amin

So be it. Amin.

Calligraphy of Surah 112 from a

North African hand-written Qu'ran

- Holy Qur'an Surah 112

Translated by Imam Bilal Hyde

Imam Bilal Hyde has studied traditional Sufism for 30 years. He studiedin Om Durman, Sudan; in Egypt and Ethiopia; and in Medina and Mecca. He iscurrently a Muslim Chaplin at the Vacaville Correctional Institution andlives with his wife and 3 daughters in Albany, California. He teaches Qur'anicrecitation and serves as the Qur'an Reciter for Mevlevi Order groups throughoutthe United States. He has taught classes on the inner meanings of the Qur'anat the Mendocino and Mid-West Sufi Camps and at the Abode of the Messagein New York.

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