即使仅从所引用的经文中也应当可以看出,要正确理解《古兰经》的教义,就必须充分理解这四个术语的含义。事实上,对于不懂"伊拉赫"(ilaah)或"拉布"(rabb)所指为何、"伊巴达"(’ibadah)构成什么、以及《古兰经》使用"丁"(deen)一词时所指为何的人来说,《古兰经》将失去其全部意义。他将无法学懂什么是"Tawhid"(在最完整意义上相信安拉的独一性),也无法理解与之相对的是什么,即"shirk"(将安拉独有的任何品质或属性全部或部分地归于他者)。

It should however be obvious even from the quotations given that it is essential for proper comprehension of the teachings of the Qur'ān fully to understand the implications of these four terms. The Qur'ān will in fact lose its whole meaning for anyone who does not know what is meant by ilaah or rabb, what constitutes ’ibadah, and what the Qur'ān means when it uses the word deen. He will fail to learn what Tawhid (belief in the One-ness of Allah in the fullest sense) is, or what constitutes its anti-thesis, that is, shirk (the attribution to others, either wholly or partially, of any of Allah’s exclusive qualities or attributes).

不可能使他的崇拜或他的宗教专一地归于安拉。比这样一个完全无知的人稍好一点的，是那种对这些术语的含义只有模糊概念的人，因为在这种情况下，《古兰经》的全部教导对他而言都将仍然模糊而不完整，他的信仰和行为都将在根本上有许多不足之处。他无疑会不断诵读清真言的词句，甚至解释说它的意思是除安拉外没有应受崇拜的神，然而在实际中，他却仍将把许多其他事物当作神来对待。他会一生宣称除安拉外没有主宰，然而尽管如此，他仍会把许多人当作主宰来对待。他会以十分严肃和真诚的态度抗辩并宣称，他不把崇拜奉献给安拉以外的任何对象，却仍会在不自知的情况下把崇拜奉献给他人。如果有人哪怕稍微暗示他还信奉其他宗教，他都会感到冒犯，甚至要与指控者发生冲突，然而在实际中，他却会在不自觉间把效忠献给许多其他宗教。

It will not be possible for him to make his ’ibadah, or his deen, exclusive for Allah alone. And little better than such a completely ignorant man would be the one who has only a vague idea of what the terms imply, because in that case the whole teaching of the Qur'ān will remain vague and incomplete for him, and both his belief and his conduct will fatally leave much to be desired. He will no doubt keep on reciting the words of the kalimah, and even explain that it means that there is no ilaah but Allah, and yet, in practice, he will keep treating many another to be an ilaah too. He will go through life proclaiming that there is no rabb but Allah, and yet for all that there will be many whom he will be treating as rabbs. He will protest, and affirm, with all seriousness and sincerity, that he does not give his ’ibadah to any but Allah, and will yet keep giving to others unknowingly. If anyone even so much as hints that he has any other deen, he would feel offended enough to come to blows with the accuser, and yet in practice, he will unwittingly be giving his allegiance to many another deen.

没有人会听到他在敬称任何事物时使用"Allah"或"rabb"这两个词，除非是《古兰经》中所用的特定含义。然而，他的行为举止却仿佛拥有许多ilaah（神明）和许多rabb（主宰），只是他自己并未意识到这一点，正如那个人一直在说散文，直到有人明确告诉他，他才知道自己一生都在说散文。如果有人直截了当地告诉他，他是在把自己的'ibadah（崇拜）献给他人，从而犯了shirk（以物配主）之罪，他可能会强烈反感，甚至激烈争吵；但按照适用的标准，他实际上一直在无意识地以崇拜他人的身份生活，作为他人之dīn（宗教、道统）的追随者，却从未怀疑过事实确是如此。

No one will ever hear him actually use the words Allah or rabb in respect of any but in the specific sense in which the words have been employed in the Qur'ān, but he will be conducting himself as if he had many an ilaah and many a rabb though without realising this, just like the person who never realised until he was specifically told that he had been uttering prose all his life. If someone were to tell him in so many words that he was giving his ’ibadah to others, and thus committing shirk, he might resent this strongly and even quarrel violently, but according to the criteria applicable he will unconsciously have been living as a worshipper of others as an adherent of the deens of others, without ever suspecting that in fact was the case.