In the 114th Surah of The Qu’ran, the Prophet is being addressed as a head and leader of a people and is commanded, “Say, ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of people, the Controller of people, the God of people’”. The three preeminent characteristics and attributes of God described here are: Kingship/Lordship, Ownership, and Holiness, which are all concerned with man taking refuge from evil within God. We described God as being omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibevolent. Both the Qu’ran and the Bible emphasize that the will of God is that men believe in Him and live according to His commandments. If one transgresses these commandments and sins, then only the mercy of God can forgive them. In the 114th Surah, as opposed to the 113th Surah, the nature
