Concept of Tawhid....

The concept of tawhid, as it really is, illustrated so beautifully by Imam Ali(as)…

"Praise is due to Allah whose worth cannot be described by speakers, whose bounties cannot be counted by calculators and whose claim (to obedience) cannot be satisfied by those who attempt to do so, whom the height of intellectual courage cannot appreciate, and the divings of understanding cannot reach; He for whose description no limit has been laid down, no eulogy exists, no time is ordained
and no duration is fixed. He brought forth creation through His Omnipotence,dispersed winds through His Compassion, and made firm the shaking earth with rocks.

The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of
acknowledging Him is to testify Him,
the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness,
the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and
the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes,
because every attribute is proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute.

Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognises His like, and who recognises His like regards Him two;
and who regards Him two recognises parts for Him;
and who recognises parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him;
and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him;
and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him.

Whoever said in what is He, held that He is contained; and whoever said on what is He held He is not on something else.

He is a Being but not through phenomenon of coming into being.
He exists but not from non-existence. He is with everything but not in physical nearness. He is different from everything but not in physical separation.
He acts but without connotation of movements and instruments.
He sees even when there is none to be looked at from among His creation.

He is only One, such that there is none with whom He may keep company or whom He may miss in his absence."

Allah huma salleh a’ala muhammed din wa’ale muhammed!

SubhanAllah it's very good. Where did you get this from?

That is all very true.

Know, may Allah guide us and you, that it is obligatory upon every accountable person to know that Allah is the only God in His Dominion.

He created the entire world, the upper and lower, the ^Arsh and Kursiyy, the heavens and earth, and what is in them and in between them.

All the creation is subjugated by His Power. No speck moves except by His will.

He has no manager for the creation with Him, and has no partner in Dominion.

He is attributed with Life and is Qayyum. He is not seized by somnolence or sleep.

He is the One Who knows about the unforeseen and what is evidenced by His creation. Nothing on earth or in heaven is hidden from Him. He knows what is on land and in sea. Not a leaf does fall but He knows about it. There is no grain in the darkness of earth, nor anything which is moist or dry but is inscribed in a clear Book. His Knowledge encompasses everything. He knows the count of all things.

He does whatever He wills. He has the power to do whatever He wills.

To Him is the Dominion and He needs none; To Him belong the Glory and Everlastingness. To Him are the Ruling and al-Qada’ (the Creating). He has the Names of Perfection. No one hinders what He decreed. No one prevents what He gives. He does in His dominion whatever He wills. He rules His creation with whatever He wills.
He does not hope for reward and does not fear punishment.

There is no right on Him that is binding, and no one exercises rule over Him.

Every endowment from Him is due to His Generosity and every punishment from Him is just. He is not questioned about what He does, but they are questioned.

He existed before the creation. He does not have a before or an after. He does not have an above or a below, a right or a left, an in front of or a behind, a whole or a part.

It must not be said: When was He? Or where was He? Or how is He? He existed without a place. He created the universe and willed for the existence of time. He is not bound to time and is not designated with place.

His management of one matter does not distract Him from another. Delusions do not apply to Him, and He is not encompassed by the mind. He is not conceivable in the mind. He is not imagined in the self nor pictured in delusions. He is not grasped with delusions or thoughts.
http://www.aicp.org/html/the__aqidah_of_ibn_asakir.html

SubhanAllah.

I attended a talk some time ago and the speaker read something i can't remember the reference but he said that the Angel of Death will be commanded by Allah(swt) to take out the soul of every living thing including the angels and jinn and lastly he will be commanded to take the soul out of himself. Everything will cease to exist, there will only be Allah(swt) and He(swt) will say:

"Now who is the Lord".

When I heard this all I could think was SubhanAllah and it made be realise Allah(swt)'s Power and Authority.

Thanks for the link.

salaams,
scarface, the speech is from nahjul blagha…it is the first sermon given by imam ali(as) on tawhid…

i’ll try and find the online link…

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[This message has been edited by Lady Noor (edited January 23, 2001).]

Scarface, Al-Hamdulillah that you have seen the fact that all of what we are saying is praising Allah and attributing to Allah power and will. Unlike others who just don't get it!. Allah the almighty existed eternally, never needed anything, and never will he! Eternaly Allah existed without a place and now he is as he was as mentioned by Imam Ja^far As-Sadiq in salman's post.