Exegesis of Surat al-Ikhlas and what is derived from its verses.

The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
As for what follows: This is the one hundred and seventh of the meetings that take place every week on every Thursday, and this is the ninth Thursday of the month of Jumada al-Thani in the year 1416.
We begin this meeting by discussing the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He: and what is facilitated from the two surahs that follow it. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, says to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): This address is for the Messenger (peace be upon him) and for the Ummah as well. And is the pronoun of the matter, which is the subject (mubtada') according to the grammarians, and the Name of Glory is the predicate (khabar) of the subject, and is a second predicate, and is a second sentence.
They mentioned regarding the reason for the revelation of this surah: that the polytheists or the Jews said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Describe your Lord to us. What is He made of?"
So Allah revealed this surah: meaning: It is Allah about whom you speak and about whom you ask. meaning: He is unique in His majesty and greatness, having no like, and having no partner. Rather, He is unique in majesty and greatness, Mighty and Majestic.
is an independent sentence. Allah, the Exalted, made clear that He is al-Samad. So what is the meaning of al-Samad? The most comprehensive of what has been said about its meaning is: "He is the Perfect in His attributes, to whom all His creations are in need". It was narrated from Ibn Abbas that al-Samad is: "He is the Perfect in His knowledge, the Perfect in His forbearance, the Perfect in His might, the Perfect in His power".
To the end of what was mentioned in the report. And this means that He is self-sufficient regarding all creations, because He is perfect. It was also mentioned in its exegesis that al-Samad is: "He is the One to whom the creations turn in their needs".
And this means that all creations are in need of Him. And thus, the comprehensive meaning of al-Samad is: He is the Perfect in His attributes, to whom all His creations are in need.
He did not beget, because He, Exalted and Majestic is He, has no like. And a child is derived from his father and is a part of him, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said regarding Fatimah: And Allah, Exalted and Majestic is He, has no like.
Then, a child is only for the need of him, either for assistance in enduring the hardships of this world, or for the need of the continuation of the lineage. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is self-sufficient regarding that. So for this reason, He did not beget, because He has no like, and because He is self-sufficient regarding everyone, Mighty and Majestic. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, also indicated the impossibility of His begetting in His saying, the Exalted: So a child needs a companion who bears him. And likewise, He is the Creator of everything. So if He is the Creator of everything, then everything is separate from Him and distinct from Him.
: Because He, Mighty and Majestic, is the First, before whom there is nothing. So how could He be born?
And in this sentence is a refutation of three deviant groups from the children of Adam, and they are:
The polytheists, the Jews, and the Christians. Because the polytheists made the angels, who are the servants of the Most Merciful, female, and they said: "The angels are the daughters of Allah." The Jews said: "Ezra is the son of Allah." And the Christians said: "The Messiah is the son of Allah." So Allah refuted them by His saying: So His saying: contains a refutation of three groups. I made it the last, but the correct one is the first. is a refutation of three groups from the children of Adam, all of whom are astray: the polytheists, the Jews, and the Christians. Because the polytheists say: "The angels are the daughters of Allah." The Christians say: "The Messiah is the son of Allah." And the Jews say: "Ezra is the son of Allah."
: Because He, Mighty and Majestic, is the First, before whom there is nothing.
meaning: No one was equal to Him in all His attributes. So Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, negated from Himself being a father, or being born, or having a like.
This surah has a great virtue. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: But it is equal to it and does not take its place. It is equal to one-third of the Qur'an, but it does not take the place of one-third of the Qur'an. The evidence for this is that if a person were to repeat it three times in the obligatory prayer, it would not suffice for him in place of al-Fatihah, even though if he recites it three times, it is as if he had recited the entire Qur'an. But it does not suffice for him. And do not be surprised that a thing is equal to another thing but does not suffice in its place. Here is the Prophet (peace be upon him) informing that whoever says: And yet, if he had a neck as an expiation and said this dhikr, it would not suffice for him regarding the expiation. So it is not necessary that if a thing is equal to another thing, it takes its place in sufficiency.
The Messenger (peace be upon him) used to recite this surah in the second rak'ah of the Sunnah of Fajr, and in the Sunnah of Maghrib, and in the two rak'ahs of tawaf. And likewise, he used to recite it in the third rak'ah of witr, because it is based on sincerity, complete sincerity to Allah. For this reason, it is called: Surat al-Ikhlas.