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71 — In reality there is no deity but Him; He is greater than everything.

72 — He alone is worthy of taḥmīd (praise) and tanzīh (being declared free of all imperfection).

73 — In truth, He actually possesses all of these attributes.

74 — Thus the servants do not, through their words, establish for Him anything that was not already His; rather, the aim of their speech is to confirm this truth within themselves. They attain complete felicity when each of them harbors in his heart no god but Allah, thereby purging himself of the shirk of the polytheists.

75 — For most of the children of Adam are as Allah says: “Most of them do not believe in Allah without associating partners with Him” (12:106).

76 — They acknowledge that He is the Lord of all worlds and that there is no Lord besides Him, yet they still associate others with Him in love, reliance, fear, or other forms of shirk.

77 — As for true tawḥīd (monotheism): it is that Allah is dearer to a person than anything else—so he loves nothing as he loves Allah, fears nothing as he fears Allah, and hopes for nothing as he hopes in Allah.