The Virtue of Sūrah al-Ikhlāṣ
On the authority of Abū Dardāʾ (raḍi Allāhu ʿanhu), the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:
“Will any of you fail to recite one-third of the Qurʾān nightly?” It was then said: “How can [we] recite one-third of the Qurʾān?” The Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وسلم) replied:
“Say: He is Allāh, (the) One.” [i.e. Sūrah al-Ikhlāṣ] is equivalent to one-third of the Qurʾān [Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: 811].
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Razāq al-Badr mentions: Allāh is the greatest! What a tremendous virtue! Verily, there are 361,180 letters in the Qurʾān. It is said, there are 323,015 letters, and it is also...