Bara'ah

Its merits are similar to those of Surat al-Anfal above. In a footnote regarding this Chapter, al-Kaf'ami explains that "Bara'ah" (which means clearance or dissociation or a separation from) means: dissociation (of the infidels) from Ali (as); the Basmala was not included at its beginning, as is the case with all other Chapters of the Holy Qur'an, simply because the Basmala connotes security and mercy, whereas Bara'ah was revealed to lift such security and to warn of confrontation.
This chapter, al-Kaf'ami goes on, has ten names:

1) "Bara'ah," after the first word in it;
2) "Tawbah," due to the repentance to which it refers within its text;
3) "Faziha," the revealer, unveiler, or announcer, for it unveils and reveals the truth about and announces the hypocrisy of those hypocrites about whom it informs us;
4) "Muba'thira," scatterer, because it scatters and displays to everyone the hidden secrets of those hypocrites;
5) "Muqashqisha," a chapter that cures or heals or clears those who believe in it of hypocrisy and polytheism due to the supplication and sincerity it contains;
6) "Bahooth," investigator or researcher or seeker, because it looks for the hypocrites' secret schemes;
7) "Mudamdima," annihilator, because it annihilates hypocrisy and hypocrites;
8) "Hafira," excavator or digger: it dug up the hearts of the hypocrites and unveiled what they were hiding;
9) "Mubashshira," bearer of glad tidings: By making public the abominations and ugly schemes of those hypocrites, it brought glad tidings to those who were not among them; and,
10) "Athab," torment or torture, because of repeatedly referring to the torment awaiting those hypocrites and all others like them.