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Sustainer save Him. It is also a sign to the unity of Divine might and power: There is no SelfSubsistent and no absolutely SelfSufficient One save Him.

He begets not alludes to the unity of Divine Glory, and rejects every sort of association of partners with God. That is, one who is subject to change or division, or who reproduces, cannot be God. It rejects association of partners with God in the form of ‘the ten intellects,’ or the angels, Jesus or Uzayr being Divine offspring.

And neither is He begotten proves the preeternity of God and His Unity. It rejects ascribing partners to God in the form of causality, the worship of stars, idolatry, and Naturalism. That is, something created or detached from its original, or born of some matter cannot be God.

And there is none like unto Him is a comprehensive affirmation of Divine Unity. That is, He has no like, partner, or peer either in His essence, or in His attributes, or in His actions. There is nothing whatever like unto Him, and He is AllHearing, AllSeeing.(31)

This sura of the Qur’an rejects all forms of associating partners with God, and its six phrases comprise seven degrees of the affirmation of Divine Unity. Each phrase is both the result and the proof of the others.

Together with all its parts and members, and even its cells and all its particles, the universe, which is the supreme affirmer of Divine Unity and its greatest proof,

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(31) Qur’an, 42:11.

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