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General remarks.

is really the concluding chapter of the Holy Qur-án—the two chapters that follow only show how the protection of the Lord is to be sought—and it gives the sum and substance of the teachings of the Holy Qur-án, which is the declaration of the Unity of the Divine Being, the chapter receiving its title from that circumstance. All other objects are secondary as compared with this. The chapter is one of the earliest revelations, and contains a refutation not only of idolatry and Christianity, but of every polytheistic doctrine.

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