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Indeed this Qurn guides to the most
Straight Path,
Exegesis writers elucidate that this
blessed verse refers to the three
subsequent facet of Muslim belief:
A. Taud. (This refers to two major
things:
i. His Lordship
ii. His attributes
And these two denote the paramount
notion: Lord in Himself.
B. Believing in Messengers and
Prophets sent by Allah
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C. Obeying their comamands.
The theological doctrine Taud
decoded as ''Monotheism'' is
represented by means of the verses of
the Holy Qurn:
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Allah - none is worthy of worship,
except Him, He is Alive (eternally, on
His own) and the Sustainer.
The primary component of the verse
symbolizes to the Lordship of His and
hence makes us comprehend the
vitality of monotheism which is the
means for one to get enriched with
the remuneration from the Lord and is
the message with which all the
messengers were sent by Allah
; Sayyidun N (May peace be upon
him!) Sayyidun Ibrhm (May peace
be upon him!) Sayyidun Ms (May
peace be upon him!) Sayyidun 'Iss
(May peace be upon him!) , Sayyidun
Muammad Musafa
and all spread the message of Taud
(monotheism).
How the message of Taud
(Monotheism) was proclaimed by
Sayyidun Ibrhm:
The exegesis writers of the Holy Qurn
make the depiction of the anecdote
concerning Sayyidun Ibrhm in this
delineation: Namrd bin Kin'n, who
was dreadfully vicious and was the
foremost sovereign who ever dressed
in a crown, used to coerce people into
worshipping him. In a copious huddle,
astrologers and sorcerers that used to
serve him as his courtiers, stood as his
favorites. One night, Namrd had a
dream, A star appears in the sky and
it blurs the light of the sun, moon and
other stars. The foreshadowers and
astrologers explicated what the dream
proclaimed; they said, A boy will be
born who will finally lead you to
undergo the downfall of your
kingdom. Concerned, Namrd
ordered, Any baby boy born in my city
shall be slain. Thus, thousands of
infants were killed. However, the
Divine Destiny at last reaches its mark.
Therefore, in the meantime, Sayyidun
Ibrhm (May peace be upon him!)
took birth. Being in an irresistible fright
of the king, mother of Sayyidun
Ibrhm (May peace be upon him!)
put him out of sight in a cave located
in the mountains, far-off. His mother
used to come to the cave clandestinely
so that she could feed him. Theres a
dissension within the position the
exegetes have. Some say that
Sayyidun Ibrhm (May peace be
upon him!) stayed in the cave for
seven years; while others have quoted
a epoch of seventeen years.
In that era, people used to worship
stars. One night Sayyidun Ibrhm
(May peace be upon him!) saw a
planet (perhaps Jupiter or Venus); in a
very elegant and eloquent manner he
addressed people to promulgate the
message, Taud (monotheism), 'O
people! Is this planet my Lord?' When
that planet set, Sayyidun Ibrhm
(May peace be upon him!) said, 'I dont
love those who sink down.' After this,
the radiant moon came out. Then he
yet again said: 'Is this my Lord?' Later,
when the moon also set, Sayyidun
Ibrhm (May peace be upon him!)
said: 'If my Lord had not guided me, Id
have been among the transgressors
too.' After the shining and glooming
sun rose, Sayyidun Ibrhm (May
peace be upon him!) said, 'It is bigger
than the others, but is this my Lord?'
Nevertheless, when the sun also set,
Sayyidun Ibrhm (May peace be
upon him!) said O my people! I am fed
up with all those things which you
associate as a partner with Almighty
Allah
? He is the One
Who has guided me and I am not
scared of your counterfeit gods at all.
Listen! Without the will of my Almighty
Lord, you and your gods cannot harm
me. My Lord has knowledge of the
whole lot; will you not follow my
directives? The speech was revealed in
such words:
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So when the night became dark upon
him he saw a star; he said (to Azar / the
people), (You portray that) this is my
Lord?; then when it set he said, I do
not like the things that set.
Then when he saw the moon shining,
he said, (You proclaim that) this is my
Lord?; then when it set, he said, If
my Lord had not guided me *, I too
would be one of these astray people.
(* Prophet Ibrahim was rightly guided
before this event).
Then when he saw the sun shining
brightly, he said, (You say that) this is
my Lord? This is the biggest of them
all!; then when it set he said, O
people! I do not have any relation with
the whatever you ascribe as partners (to
Him).
I have directed my attention towards
Him Who has created the heavens and
the earth, am devoted solely to Him,
and am not of the polytheists.
And his people argued with him; he
said, What! You dispute with me
concerning Allah? So He has guided
me; and I do not have any fear of
whatever you ascribe as partners,
except what my Lord wills (to happen);
my Lords knowledge encompasses all
things; so will you not accept advice?
(Srah Anm, Verse 76-79)
Thus, by virtue of Sayyidun Ibrhm
(May peace be upon him!) we are
made to know that none of the
Creations can be Lord; rather, Allah
do not prostrate for the sun or the
moon, but prostrate for Allah Who has
created them, if you are His bondmen.
In addition, we came to know that He
(Allah
Proclaim, He is Allah, He is One.
One preeminent point that Taud
(Monotheism) refers to is that Allah
He begot none' nor was He begotten.
And there is none equal to Him..
It says in Tabrani that He is the biggest
and has no abdomen; neither does He
eat nor drink. But for Him, everyone
and everything is perishable. He plights
troth to none; nor is there any woman
for Him. He Himself says in Quran:
He possibly have a child when, in fact,
He does not have a spouse?
All creatures have been created by
Him and among all creatures that He
created, none can stand equal to Him.
In addition, the belief the Believers
embrace regarding His attributes is:
It is Allah only, Who is the Creator,
the Initiator, the Designer of all His
only are all the good names; all
whatever is in the heavens and in the
earth proclaims His Purity; and He only
is the Most Honourable, the Wise.
Furthermore our credence stands by
the subsequent speech:
to Him only belongs all whatever is in
the heavens and all whatever is in the
earth;
Note that the manufacturer has
complete control over the product
they produce. Since, everything in this
universe is of Allah so it is Him Who
controls everything. He has absolute
supremacy and authority. As we read
in the holy Quran:
Undoubtedly, it is only Allah, the Great
Provider, the Powerful, the
Authoritative.
He is the owner of the sun, the moon,
the sky and the earth. And it is in fact
the owner whose command is
followed. Allah
is the one
Whose law is to be abided by and He is
the one Who will institute the Day of
Judgment. He is absolutely Singular
(i.e. One). There is No partner of His.
Allah
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Nothing is Like Him, and He is the All-
Hearing, All-seeing.
In view of the fact that, there is
likelihood to visualize only an article
which is amorphous and Allah is free
from any form or shape, on that
account, it is not in any case practicable
to ascertain any icon of His highest
Being. So, His Being comprises
Incomprehensibility. The verse in Sura
Al-Anam says:
Eyes do not encompass Him - and all
eyes are within His domain *; He is the
Most Subtle, the Fully Aware. (*
Control / knowledge)
The word
and
thus designates either veil or softness
or politeness; He is merciful to His
bondmen and does a lot many favours
to them. He cannot be seen but sees
everyone and knows everything. Allah
has always known everything and that
too forever; furthermore, He needs no
medium to get the knowledge of
things.
Yet, this is under possibility for one to
come to know about the existence of
His by making the use of reasoning and
contemplation over the Creation of
His.
The holy verse articulates:
And the night, and the day, and the
sun, and the moon are among His
signs;
The sun, the moon and the rotation of
day and night are indeed a proof that
there is Creator of times and that is
One by Whose order everything is set
on its particular axis and does not slip
its routine. It is Him Who created night
filled with darkness and day decorated
with brightness. The light of the sun
and the moon explicitly proclaims that
there is One Who created them. How
beautifully He has divided the round of
a clock into two halves; the dark one
and the bright one. This is a real show
of His unparalleled supremacy.
Allah, the One Who is the most
Gracious and Merciful, deserves all
praise. None but Allah alone is the
Creator of everything and He is the
One Dominant over all. He is
dependent on no one; in contrast,
everything is dependent on Him.
This
attribute of His known as Aseity refers
to His being so independent.
As has been revealed in holy Quran:
Allah is the independent. (Perfect, does
not require anything.)
Allah is never under anyones control;
He is the Supreme Sovereign. He is
Omnipotent. He is at liberty to do
whatever, whenever and however He
wills. His potency is beyond
comprehension; however, by studying
the anecdote in the Holy Qurn we
learn that an occurrence that
apparently seems impossible to come
about is possible for Him that He
makes it occur. Such as, an infant does
not speak but it is Him Who can make
even a one day old infant speak.
Furthermore, a piece of wood just
stays immobile, but by His command
even a wood can become so active
that it can even swallow anacondas.
Likewise, a stone that remains
stationary was made to run by the
command of His which indeed is also a
miracle of Sayyiduna Ms (May peace
be upon him!). Can a stone run? Thats
the question which might emerge in
readers mind so that the authenticity
of this claim can be proved it will be
better if the part of the Holy Qurn in
which this incident has been revealed
is cited here:
'O believers! be not like those who
have annoyed Ms, then Allah
exonerated him of what he spoke of
him. And Ms is honourable in the
sight of Allah.
Since the reader will want this to be
elucidated therefore lets open Tafsir e
Sawi. It says in it:
It was the custom among the people of
Ban Isrl that they used to bathe
naked publically. Although Sayyidun
Ms (May peace be upon him!) was a
member of the similar society, was
born and raised among them, but Allah
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This is the strength given by Allah
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And when Ibrahim submitted, 'O my
Lord, show me how You shall give life
to the dead.' Said He, 'do you not
believe.' Submitted he, 'why not, but I
like that my heart may be at rest. 'Said
He, 'then well, taking four birds, make
them familiar to you, then put a part of
each of them on each hill, thereafter
call them, they will come to you
running with their feet. And know that
Allah
is Mighty, Wise.
Once Sayyidun Ibrhm (May peace
be upon him!) said in the reverential
court of Allah
, O Allah
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show me how you will resurrect the
dead. Allah
said, Ibrhm,
dont you have faith in it? Sayyidun
Ibrhm (May peace be upon him!)
said, Why not! Although I believe in it
nonetheless I wish to observe this
display with my eyes so that my heart
receives serenity. Allah
then
said, Raise four birds and nourish
them well by feeding them
abundantly, then slaughter them and
make minced meat from their flesh
and place little portions of each on top
of some mountains in the
surroundings. Then call upon these
birds, those birds will come back to life
and rush to you and thus you will
witness the spectacle of renaissance of
dead with your own eyes. Therefore,
Sayyidun Ibrhm (May peace be
upon him!) raised four birds; a cock, a
crow, a peacock and a pigeon, or a
vulture as is reported on dissension
basis in different exegesis. He raised
them for a certain period of time
whilst nourishing and taming them
well. Then he slaughtered them.
Keeping their heads with himself and
mincing their meat, placed little parts
of each on the surrounding mountains.
Standing at a distant point, he then
called those birds by their names while
exclaiming: O cock! O pigeon! O
vulture! O peacock! The meat from the
mountains started soaring up into the
air and on the call given by the true
Prophet the meat of each bird, flesh,
bones and feathers assembled,
individually and then all four birds
became formed as similarly as they
were and they, being headless, rushed
to Sayyidun Ibrhm (May peace be
upon him!) where they connected to
their own individual heads, and then
they started to take cereal and chirp in
their own language. This was how
Sayyidun Ibrhm (May peace be
upon him!) witnessed the
demonstration of the revival of the
dead thatll take place on Day of
Reckoning; how superb the grace of
Allah is!
An unexpected occurrence is possible
to ensue if Allah
commands;
such as running of the stone and
revival of dead birds as weve just
learnt from the Qurnic anecdotes.
The creation of human being is itself a
marvelous illustration of the
unmatchable strength of Allah
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A scientific research makes us learn
that a human is incredible composite
of an assortment of apposite and
opposite constituents. The first man
created physically was Sayyidun
Adam (May peace be upon him!). This
Creation of Allah
, Sayyidun
Adam (May peace be upon him!)
proclaims the immensely majestic
might of Allah
. A human takes
birth after the process of copulating
between a male and female. How
superb His potency is that He depends
on none. Allah
. Great excellence
of potency of His! Verily, we read in
the holy Qurn:
'Allah
Such is Allah, your Lord; and none is
worthy of worship except Him; the
Creator of all things - therefore worship
Him; and He is the Trustee over all
things
This is the Grace of Allah that His Being
is beyond understanding of His men
yet His blessings always near to them.
He introduces His Grace by mentioning
His trait here. The knowledge of the
Being of Lord is of two types. One is
that He is recognized by seeing the
universal objects like the sun and the
moon and thus is called Mraifat-e-
Tauhid (the knowledge of
monotheism); the other is Marifat-e-
Iman (the knowledge of Faith) which
one gains by means of His prophets.
Note that, the word
doesnt
refer to the every single entity who is
worshipped; [like, some people
worship idols and some other universal
objects so their act of worshipping
doesnt make such objects to be the
one called
refers to His
mortality; He is Alive eternally, on His
own and is the Sustainer of others. It is
Him who causes others to be; no one
causes Him to be. His characteristics
reach to such acme of excellence
which has no limit; nor ending.
{Part 3, Chapter 2, Section 34, verse
255}
And it is Him Who can give life to
whomever He wills that too whenever;
and can cease their life whenever He
wills. As the holy verse says:
and Allah gives life and causes death;
{Part 4, Chapter 3, Section 17, verse
156}
As is the component in the fourth
Article of Faith recited by Muslims:
Therefore we believe that He is Alive
on his own and He gives life to
whomsoever and whatsoever,
whenever He wants; in addition, He
gives demise to whomsoever and
whatsoever, whenever He wants. He
has been forever and will remain
forever; death will never meet him. As
regards attributes, one of His
attributes is of much significance that
He is Wjib-ul-Wjd which means
that His existence is necessary at all
times. Why this point is of enormous
worth because not believing Him to be
in existence all the times makes one
suffer from the offense of Polytheism
which is also caused if one believes
someone Eternal (al-Qadim) other
than Allah or if they believe that He is
not Eternal (al-Qadim). Believing any
being other than Him to be worthy of
worship also leads one to Polytheism.
One must believe that ''He begot none
nor was He begotten'' so that one
keeps themself from Polytheism.
As far as His commands, will and
promises are concerned, His
excellence is:
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Those who believe without seeing (the
hidden),
Since, Allah
says in the holy Qurn:
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Said Allah, "What prevented you, that
you did not prostrate when I
commanded you?" Answered Iblis, "I
am better than him; You created me
from fire whereas You created him
from clay." Said Allah, "Therefore go
down from here - it does not befit you
to stay here and be proud - exit, you are
of the degraded." He said, "Give me
respite till the day when people will be
resurrected." Said Allah, "You are
given respite." He said, "Hence I swear
by the fact that You sent me astray, I
will certainly lay in wait for them on
Your Straight Path." "Then I will
certainly approach them - from their
front and from behind them and from
their right and from their left; and You
will find most of them not thankful."
He said, "Exit from here, rejected,
outcast; indeed whoever among them
follows your bidding, I will fill hell
with all of you."
Scholars say that it was egotism that
made Satan go astray therefore this
anecdote carries a kind of tutorial stuff
for us that we must not be conceited
of our worship. Were not supposed to
be arrogant for whatever knowledge
we have. We also come to know that
one must always be on the alert to the
tricks of Satan who definitely efforts to
delude humans into committing
wrongs; we must shun being on the
journey to the evil path towards which
Satan misleads humans. Human can be
grasped by Satan to indecency; since a
human is in scarce of immaculateness.
To conclude it can be said that
inadequacy in His being is entirely not
possible; since, His trait is the
Impeccability; defectiveness,
impertinence and indecency are the
traits which not at all are any of His
attributes.
Tenor of holy Prophets saying: (May
peace and Allahs blessing be upon
him!)