the Compeller, the Supremely Great, the Creator, the Originator, the Fashioner; His are the Most Beautiful Names. Whatever is in the heavens and on the earth glorifies Him, and He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.

I also bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His messenger. He sent him with guidance and the religion of truth so that He might make it prevail over every other religion—and Allah is sufficient as Witness. He sent him with the truth, before the coming of the Hour, as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner, one who calls to Allah by His permission and as a radiant lamp. He dispatched him to both classes of creation—jinn and humankind, Arabs and non-Arabs, the unlettered and the People of the Book alike.

Upon him He revealed:
“Allah has sent down the finest discourse: a Book, harmonious within itself and oft-repeated. The skins of those who fear their Lord shiver at it, then their skins and their hearts soften to the remembrance of Allah. That is Allah’s guidance; He guides with it whom He wills, and whomever Allah leads astray, none can guide.” (al-Zumar: 23)

A Book He sent down so that He might bring mankind out of darkness into light—by permission of their Lord—and guide them
“to the path of the Mighty, the Praiseworthy—Allah, to Whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth.” (Ibrahim: 1–2)

By means of it He guided them to a straight path, the path of the One to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth—the path of those upon whom Allah has bestowed His favour from among