1# Creed: The One Lord of Islam
The hymn-like and conceptual Surah Kahf (Chapter 18 of the Quran) compounds frames of power and knowledge in Islamic creed. The drone in the undertows of its verses illuminate the entrenching to Abrahamic stances but also paradigms of externality. The opening verses follow incantational praises and construct Lordship to a non-trinitarian litany of atonal and literary phrasing. There are symbols of dissonance from Christian rhetoric bound to discourse on authenticity of revelations and its cosmological arguments for ethical precepts.
The first verses break in the legitimization of holiness of the Qur’an and the modalities in teachings of validity to creed and theological foundations:
Surah Kahf verses 1-4 -
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Praise belongs to Allah who has sent down the Book to His servant, and allowed no crookedness in it,
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a straightforward Book to warn of a severe punishment from Him, and to give the good news to the believers, who do righteous deeds, that they will have an excellent reward (Paradise)
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in which they will dwell forever,
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and to warn those who have said that Allah has had a son,