Tawhid (Islamic Monotheism) - Tawhid According To The Orthodox Sunnis

Tawhid According To The Orthodox Sunnis

The Qur'an is the main information source for understanding the oneness of God in Islam. 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 but God."

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:

"Say (O Muhammad): He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." —Qur'an, Sura 112 (Al-Ikhlas), ayat 1-4 "Thy Lord is self-sufficient, full of Mercy: if it were His will, He could destroy you, and in your place appoint whom He will as your successors, even as He raised you up from the posterity of other people." —Qur'an, Sura 6 (Al-An'am), ayat 133

According to the Qur'an, Tawhid, meaning literally unification or asserting the oneness of God (to be the only God who deserves to be worshiped in truth and confirming all attributes with which He has qualified Himself or that are attributed to Him by His Messenger), can be categorised into three tenets of theology; Tawhid al Rubu`biya, Tawhid al `Uluhiyya and Tawheed-al-Asma was-Sifaat.