"I believe in ALLAH, in His Angels, His
Scriptures, His Prophets, the Day of Judgment, and in the fact that
every thing good or bad (in the world) is pre-destined by ALLAH the
Exalted, and in the resurrection after death."
Tauheed, the Oneness of ALLAH (s.w.t) for a Muslim is:
" ALLAH, there is no god but He, the Living, the Everlasting; slumber
does not seize him nor does sleep; to Him belongs whatever is in the
heavens and whatever is in the earth. Who is there that shall
intercede with Him, except by His permission? He knows what is before
them and what is after them, but they do not comprehend anything of
His knowledge, except what He will. His Throne extends over the
heavens and earth, and their guarding does not strain Him; and He is
the High, the Great". ( 3 : 255 ) Al-Quran.
We say about ALLAH's unity believing by ALLAH's help; that ALLAH is
One, without any partners. There is nothing like Him. There is nothing
that can overwhelm Him. There is no god other than Him. He is the
Eternal without a beginning and enduring without end. He will never
perish or come to an end. Nothing happens except what He wills. No
imagination can conceive of Him and no understanding can comprehend
Him. He is different from any created being. He is living and never
dies and is eternally active and never sleeps. He creates without His
being in need to do so and provides for His creation without any
effort. He causes death with no fear and restores to life without
difficulty. He has always existed together with His attributes since
before creation. Bringing creation into existence did not add anything
to His attributes that was not already there. As He was, together with
His attributes, in pre-eternity, so He will remain throughout endless
time. It was not only after the act of creation that He could be
described as "The Creator" nor was it only by the act of origination
that He could he described as "The Originator". He was always the Lord
even when there was nothing to be Lord of, and always the Creator even
when there was no creation. In the same way that He is the "Bringer to
life of the dead", after He has brought them to life a first time, and
deserves this name before bringing them to life, so too He deserves
the name of "Creator" before He has created them. This is because He
has the power to do everything, everything is dependent on Him,
everything is easy for Him, and He does not need anything.
"There is nothing like Him and He is the Hearer, the Seer". ( 42 : 11
) Al-Quran.
He created creation with His knowledge. He appointed destinies for
those He created. He allotted to them fixed life spans. Nothing about
them was hidden from Him before He created them, and He knew
everything that they would do before He created them. He ordered them
to obey Him and forbade them to disobey Him. Everything happens
according to His decree and will, and His will is accomplished. The
only will that people have is what He wills for them. What He wills
for them occurs and what He does not will, does not occur. He gives
guidance to whoever He wills, and protects them, and keeps them safe
from harm, out of His generosity; and He leads astray whoever He
wills, and abases them, and afflicts them, out of His justice. All of
them are subject to His will between either His generosity or His
justice. He is exalted beyond having opposites or equals. No one can
ward off His decree or put back His command or overpower His affairs.
We believe in all of this and are certain that everything comes from
Him. The Existence is Infinite and ALLAH has encircled the Infinite
Existence, and the Infinite existence has encircled all existent
things, so there is no possibility of any other god beyond ALLAH. The
existence of creatures is very weak before the Existence of Him. When
we and you cannot allow any other being to enter into our own limits
of existence despite such weakness, then how ALLAH, with such a
tremendous strength of existence, can allow any other god to enter
into His dominion ? In short, there is no space for any other god to
enter the Divine Dominion. As such there is no rational possibility to
believe in any other god beyond ALLAH. He is the origin of all
creatures. He is alone the Master of all creations, man, angel, jinn
etc. All creatures are the slaves and servants of ALLAH, the Lord of
the Universe. So it is incumbent on every soul in the great Universe
to recognize and acknowledge the Lordship of ALLAH, His Divine Unity
and denounce all quarters of polytheism. When He is the Creator of all
creatures and He provides for them all necessities, obedience to Him
is obligatory and binding on all creatures whether man, animals,
mountains, angels, trees, stars, moon, and sun. Men and jinn have
wish, but other creatures have no wish, they are completely
subservient to the Divine Commands or the Laws of Nature. Other
creatures have no wish of their own, so they are not susceptible to
disobedience. The word disobedience does not come in the orbit of
other creatures. It is only man or jinn who can obey and disobey
alike. He is given freedom of choice. He is given Reason or Wisdom to
judge and take action accordingly.
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