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Monotheism/
oneness of
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The
names and the qualities (attributes)
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The
worship
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The
lordship over all creatures
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The Oneness of the Names and the Attributes of Allah, being
affirmation of all the Divine Names and Attributes of Allah in a manner that
suits His Majesty, as mentioned in the Qu’ran. "There is nothing like
unto Him, and He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer." (42:11)
The Qur'anic passages (34:20-24), (35:40) and (46:4)
provide a basic understanding of the serious nature and consequences of
assigning partners or equals to God, a sin known in Islam as Shirk.
God will forgive any sin except a person who dies while
committing Shirk.
The verse 34:20-24 rejects the idea of the duality of God
by arguing that both good and evil generate from God's creative act and that
the evil forces have no creative power.
The Qur'an relates the story of Abraham in order to provide
an example of an intellectual quest for understanding God as the Cause of
Causes: Related in verses 6:75-79, Abraham moves progressively from
worshiping the stars, the moon, and the sun to acknowledging God as the sole
cause of the heavenly phenomena.
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The Oneness of the Worship of God, where it is to believe
in total obedience to God, that none has the right to be worshiped (praying,
invoking, asking for help (from the unseen), swearing, slaughtering
sacrifices, giving charity, fasting, pilgrimage and so on) except Allah.
In addition to declaring God as the Only God to whom all
acts of worship must be dedicated, such as prayers, Charity, fasting,
supplications, vowing and so on.
This also includes emotions like love, trust, and fear all
of which have degrees which should only be directed to God. As God tells the
Prophet, to say to the pagans, in the Qur'an;
- "Say: ‘Who is it that gives you all sustenance from
the sky and earth, governs sight and hearing, brings forth life from dead
(matter) and death from the living, and plans the affairs of man?’ They will
all say: ‘God’." (10:31)
- "If you asked them who created them, they would surely
say, ‘Allah’." (43:87)
- "If you asked them who brings down water from the sky
and with it brings the earth to life after its death? They will most
certainly say, ‘Allah’." (29:63)
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The Oneness of the Lordship of God, where it is to believe
that there is only one Lord for all the universe, its Creator, Organizer,
Planner, Sustainer, and the Giver of security and so on that is God.
In addition to declaring God to be One and Unique in His
work being creation, sustenance, bringing to life and causing death and so
on.
As Allah says in the Qur'an;
- "God created all things and He is the agent on which
all things depend" (39:62)
- "And Allah created you all and whatever you do."
(37:96)
- "It was not you who threw, when you threw, but it was
Allah who threw." (8:17)
- "And no calamity strikes except by Allah’s
permission." (64:11)
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Thursday, December 17, 2015
Monotheism in Islam
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