The Categories of Tawheed in Islam - Dr Zakir Naik

The Categories of Tawheed in Islam - Dr Zakir Naik

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As far as Islam is concerned, Islam does not merely believe in Monotheism. Islam believes in Tawheed. Tawheed means unification. It means asserting oneness. It comes from the root word ‘Wahada’ means to unite, to unify, it means to consolidate. Islam does not merely believe in believing in one God, it believes in Tawheed and there are three categories of Tawheed.

Tawheed Ar Ruboobiyah, Tawheed Al Asma Was Sifat and Tawheed Al Ibaadah.

In the first category of Tawheed Ar Ruboobiyah it means maintaining the Unity of Rabb, Unity of Lordship. Tawheed Ar Ruboobiyah is derived from the Arabic word Rabb meaning Lord, Sustainer, Cherisher, meaning that Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) is the creator, the cherisher, the sustainer of everything in the Universe. Everything is dependant on Him and He is independent of anything and everything. Maintaining the unity of lordship of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) that’s called as Tawheed Ar Ruboobiyah.

The second category is Tawheed Al Asma Was Sifaat, maintaining the unity if the names and attributes of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala). This is further divided into five sub categories.

Number one is whatever name you give to Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) it should be the name that he himself has given him. You cannot give your own names to Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala). You cannot say that Allah is Al Ghazib, the angry one. The Qur’an does say he is angry but that’s not one of the names Allah has given himself or the Messenger has given to Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala).

Number Two, when you describe the attributes of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) you describe it according to how Allah has described himself or the Messenger has described Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) you can’t give your own description and whatever the meaning is you have to take it. You can’t give your own description, allegorical meanings to the description of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala).

The third is you cannot give the qualities of the creation of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) to Allah himself. You can’t say that Allah forgets, Na’uzubillah. That’s the quality of his creation you cannot say Allah makes a mistake, like some of the scripture say that God made a mistake, Na’uzubillah. These are the qualities of his creation.

Number four, you cannot give the attributes and qualities of Allah to any of his creation. You can’t say I know a person who is immortal, who’s eternal. These are the qualities of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala).

And the fifth category is that you cannot give the name of Allah to any of his creation, if you have to give you have to add ‘Abd’ to it. For example, you cannot say that he is Ar Raheem, you can say Abdur Raheem, the servant of the Most Merciful and you cannot add anything before only Allah, anything else besides Allah, you can’t say Abdur Rasool, he is the servant of Rasool, this is not permitted, it breaks the second category of Tawheed Al Asma Was Sifat.

And the third category is Tawheed Al Ibaadah, maintaining the unity of worship. Ibaadah comes from the Arabic root word ‘Abd’ which means to serve, meaning a slave, meaning a servant, servitude. We have to maintain the unity of worshipping Allah alone and no one else. Tawheed Al Ibaadah means maintaining the unity of worshipping Allah alone and no one else. If you follow the first two categories like Tawheed Ar Ruboobiyah saying Allah has got, he’s the Rabb, he’s the sustainer ...

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