10. What does ‘Allah is Immaculate’ mean?
In the following verses (2:32, 2:116, 3:191, 4:171, 5:116, 6:100, 7:143, 9:31, 10:10, 10:18, 10:68, 12:108, 16:1, 16:57, 17:1, 17:43, 17:93, 17:108, 19:35, 21:22, 21:26, 21:87, 23:91, 24:16, 25:18, 27:8, 28:68, 30:40, 34:41, 36:36, 36:83, 37:159, 37:180, 39:4, 39:67, 43:13, 43:82, 52:43, 59:23, 68:29) the word referring Allah as ‘Subhaan’ meaning ‘Immaculate’ is being used. The word ‘Immaculate’ generally means keeping away from dirt, filth etc. But the word ‘Subhaan’ connotes a much deeper understanding.
It means keeping away from distortions of attributes of Allah such as death, senility, diseases, sleep, inability, fatigue, tiredness, forgetfulness, worries, weaknesses, failure, call of nature, wife, children, mother, father, hunger, thirst, etc. This word ‘Subhaan’ should never be used for anything other than Allah.
There are other words in the Arabic language to denote dirt, filth etc.