It is likewise called “al-Shāfiyah” (the All-Healing).

Al-Rāzī said: I maintain that illnesses are of two kinds: spiritual and physical. The proof is that Allah describes disbelief as a sickness when He says, “In their hearts is a disease” (al-Baqarah 2:10). This surah comprises knowledge of the fundamentals, the ancillary rulings, and the unveilings; it is therefore, in truth, a cure—indeed, the very healing (1) lies within these three domains (2).

Eleventh name: al-Wāfiyah (the All-Encompassing). This is reported from Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, who said it is so called because it does not tolerate abbreviation; one must recite it in its complete, perfect form.

Al-Zamakhsharī added that it was named al-Wāfiyah because it gathers the themes contained in the Quran: praising Allah as He deserves, devotion expressed through commands and prohibitions, and both promise and threat (3).

Twelfth name: al-Asās (the Foundation). It is related from al-Shaʿbī that he called it “al-Asās,” and that he said: I heard Ibn ʿAbbās say, “The foundation of the scriptures is the Quran, the foundation of the Quran is al-Fātiḥah, and the foundation of al-Fātiḥah is ‘In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate.’”