☆ Tawhid in Qur'an ☆
Tawhid in Qur'an
The Qur'an is the main
source of understanding
Oneness of God in Islam.
Clearly the first step to
understand God and his
oneness is to understand
the Qu'ran. All Muslim
authorities maintain
that a true
understanding of God is
impossible unless he
introduces himself due
to the fact that God is
beyond the range of
human vision and
senses. Therefore God
tells people who he is by
speaking through the
prophet. According to
this view the
fundamental message of
all of the prophets is
"There is no
god worthy of worship
but Allah." [8]
The Qur'an asserts the
existence of a single,
absolute truth that
transcends the world; a
unique being who is
independent of the
creation; a real being
indivisible
into hypostatic entities
or incarnated
manifestation.
According to the Qur'an:
[2]
"Say (O Muhammad):
"He is Allâh, (the) One,
The Self-Sufficient
Master, Whom all
creatures need, He
neither eats nor drinks,
He begets not, nor was
He begotten; And there
is none
Oneness
of God (Islam), Hanif,
and Tawhid
The holy book of Islam,
the Qur'an, asserts the
existence of a single and
absolute truth that
transcends the world; a
unique and indivisible
being who is
independent of
the creation. [19] The
indivisibility of God
implies the indivisibility
of God's (called Allah in
Arabic) sovereignty
which in turn leads to
the conception of
universe as a just and
coherent moral universe
rather than an
existential and moral
chaos (as in polytheism).
Similarly the Qur'an
rejects the binary modes
of thinking such as the
idea of duality of God by
arguing that both good
and evil generate from
God's creative act and
that the evil forces have
no power to create
anything. God in Islam is
a universal god rather
than a local, tribal or
parochial one; an
absolute who integrates
all affirmative values
and brooks no evil. [20]
Tawhid constitutes the
foremost article of the
Muslim profession. [21]
To attribute
divinity to a created
entity is the only
unpardonable sin
mentioned in the Qur'an.
[20] Muslims believe
that the entirety of the
Islamic teaching rests on
the principle of
Tawhid (Oneness of God).
[22]
Islam is a monotheistic,
Abrahamic religion
based on the teachings
of the Qur'an, a
religious book
considered by its
adherents to be the
verbatim word of God
(Arabic: الله, Allāh), and
the Islamic prophet
Muhammad's personally
demonstrated examples
(collected through
narration of his
companions in the
volumes of Hadith) for
implementing them. The
word Islam is a
homograph, having
multiple meanings, and
a triliteral of the word
salam, which directly
translates as peace.
Other meanings include
submission, or the total
surrender of oneself to
God (see Islam
(term)).[1] An adherent
of Islam is known as a
Muslim, meaning "one
who submits (to God)".[2
][3] The word Muslim is
the participle of the
same verb of which
Islām is the infinitive.
Muslims regard Islam
The word Muslim is
the participle of the
same verb of which
Islām is the infinitive.
Muslims regard Islam as
the complete and
universal version of the
original monotheistic
faith revealed to
peoples before,
including to Adam,
Abraham, Moses, Jesus,
and other prophets.
Islamic tradition holds
that previous messages
have changed and the
revelations were
distorted.[4]
Religious practices
include the Five Pillars
of Islam, which are five
duties that unite
Muslims into a
community.[5] Islamic
law (Arabic: 'شريعة
Šarīʿah) touches on
virtually every aspect of
life and society,
encompassing
everything from dietary
laws and banking to
warfare and welfare.
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