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Surah Al-Ikhlas — 112:3

لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ

Lam yalid wa lam yoolad

نہ اس نے کسی کو جنما اور نہ وہ کسی سے جنا گیا

God neither begets nor is begotten,

Reflection

Both directions are closed in a single line, neither producing offspring nor produced, which answers claims made about God in more than one of the traditions the Qur'an addresses. The symmetry is the argument: whatever is begotten has a beginning, and whatever begets belongs to a series. The line is the shortest of the four and the only one built entirely from negatives.

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