سورة الفرقان

The Messenger (peace be upon him and his family): Allah named the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) "servant" in the verse: نَزَّلَ الْفُرْقانَ عَلی عَبْدِهِ [He sent down the Furqan upon His servant], and the Prophet said: "Do not call me by any name other than this, for the best of my names is 'servant'."

Ibn Abbas: [Allah sent down the Surah] al-Furqan, which contains abundant good.

The Messenger (peace be upon him and his family): Abdullah ibn Yazid said: Yazid ibn Sallam narrated to me that he asked the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) about the reason the Quran was named al-Furqan. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) said: "Because the verses and surahs of the Quran were not sent down at one time in the form of tablets and pages, unlike the Tawrat, the Injil and the Zabur, which were sent down all at once on tablets and pages."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Ibn Sinan or someone else, who narrated it from a person who mentioned it from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him), says: I asked Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): "Are the Quran and the Furqan two things (with two meanings) or one thing?" He said: "The Quran is the entire Book, and the Furqan is its muhkamat (definitive verses), acting upon which is obligatory."

Ibn Abbas: ["the worlds"] refers to those possessing intellect from among the angels and the inhabitants of the heavens and the earth, or human beings and the jinn; لِیَکُونَ لِلْعالَمِینَ نَذِیراً [that he may be a warner to the worlds].